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...Deal days every member of the Cabinet entertained the President once a year at dinner. To save himself from putting on evening dress nine unnecessary times, Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated the custom of letting the Cabinet give him one big joint dinner. One evening last week the Cabinet solemnly assembled at the Mayflower Hotel to dine their chief. At the appointed time he did not appear. They waited and waited. At the White House Valet Irvin McDuffy was desperately turning the Presidential wardrobe inside out: the President's white pearl vest buttons could not be found. Having stewed for nearly...
Whatever Dame Fortune may decide to do (and she possesses extraordinary powers over the results of hockey games), tradition at least favors the Crimson cause, for it has been the custom for years that Yale loses the day after the Junior Prom. And illness has done the Elis no good, for Bill Moore, first line center, took to his bed a week ago, and defense men Lyn Wilson and Blake Shepard, and goalie Tom Stockhausen, are just getting back into the game after doctor-enforced rests...
However, you have omitted a few facts about sumo. You speak about the liberality in allowing the contenders to delay the starting of matches. The actual fact is that ancient custom holds that all preliminary ceremonies even including breathing must be performed in absolute rhythm to prevent one participant from obtaining any undue advantage over the other in the start...
...against a $13,888,000 profit in 1934. Built around Fleischmann yeast, Royal baking powder and Chase & Sanborn coffee, Standard Brands made some $87,750,000 in its six full years of business life. But the "Standard" brands have, in effect, standard prices which both competition and custom make difficult to raise. Consequently Recovery, with higher costs, has brought lower profit margins and a decreased profit. The common closed last week at $17.62, about 18 times 1935 earnings of 97? a share...
...banker. Now 57, he went to Harvard (Class of 1899), worked in J. P. Morgan & Co. for a year, has been in the family bank ever since. Few years ago he built a new town house on Manhattan's East 93rd Street, there carries on the old Baker custom of lavish Christmas Day receptions, with a big present for each guest...