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...Stuart Erwin) is accused of having measles, causes the International House to be placed in quarantine. He finally manages to buy the rights to the radioscope, escape with his fiancée (Sari Maritza). Through all this rigmarole, W. C. Fields wanders with a frozen face, an unlighted cigar, an armful of bottles. He goes on a rampage among the wires of the hotel switchboard. which he scornfully describes as a "Chinese noodle-swamp." He insults the inventor, abuses Gracie Allen (who has a small role as nurse to the house doctor), drives his sedan down the fire escape, finally...
...Howard, of United Corp............2,000 Arthur Curtiss James ............2,000 Percy H. Johnston, of Chemical Bank & Trust ........1,000 Cornelius F. Kelley, of Anaconda ..........2,000 Clarence H. Mackay ...........2,000 Jlenry C. McEldowney, Pittsburgh banker ........5,000 Charles E. Mitchell ................10,000 Frederick K. Morrow, of United Cigar. .............1,000 Thomas Nelson Perkins, of A. T. & T. .............500 Wm. C. Potter, of Guaranty Trust Co. .............10,000 Seward Prosser, of Bankers Trust Co. ..............10,000 Alfred P. Sloan Jr., of General Motors...............1,500 Matthew S. Sloan, of N. Y. Edison.........1,000 Walter C. Teagle, of Standard...
...there was one more thing he was to do for her. The old commercial paper house of Goldman, Sachs had grown wealthy and mighty during 30 years, floating the securities of companies that became great-Sears, Roebuck, General Cigar, Studebaker, Cluett Peabody, Woolworth, Endicott Johnson, Postum, Continental Can, May Department Stores, Pillsbury Flour, National Dairy Products, Goodrich Rubber, Lambert Pharmacal, Gimbel Brothers, Warner Brothers. Goldman Sachs had a bright partner named Waddill Catchings, Tennessee-born Harvard graduate who had been by successive and increasing turns lawyer, steelman and J. P. Morgan assistant in purchasing supplies for the Allies during...
...have long since left it (for a time it belonged to a British syndicate). It is controlled by Edward Landsberg who in two or three decades has made his way up from the bottom of the beer business, a very capable, round, red-faced, white-haired man with a cigar in his face, president of both Blatz in Milwaukee and United States Brewing in Chicago...
...carried departments for Government, Business, Art, Medicine, Sport, Music, Theatre, Persons. It told how Mayor Roesch "lit a fresh cigar, twiddled his watch chain a moment," slashed the city's budget. Happiest stroke was a three-column report on the just-published memoirs of Buffalo's Mabel Ganson Dodge Sterne Luhan who, now married to a Taos Indian, gained bohemian fame by previously marrying Painter Maurice Sterne and writing her intimate reminiscences of Author David Herbert Lawrence (Lorenzo in Taos...