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...bondholder tried to appear in person, only to be politely turned away at the door. Another uninvited guest appeared but he was allowed in. He was Arthur Curtiss James, largest individual owner of railroad stocks in the U. S. Chairman of Western Pacific, dapper, bearded Mr. James has long been trying to merge his carrier with...
...Armenian Christians of the Turkish Empire were accustomed to occasional persecution; under Abdul Hamid they had even suffered sporadic massacres. But in 1915, with Turkey at war and the Young Turks in power, they faced complete extinction. Dapper Enver Pasha, Turkey's Minister of War, planned nothing less. All Armenian villages were to be evacuated, the inhabitants driven far into the desert to concentration camps where plague and famine would finish off the survivors. Able-bodied men were to be sent to work on the roads; their job done, a firing squad would pay them...
Three years ago the National Government contained two white-haired boys in important Under-Secretaryships. One was Captain Anthony Eden at the Foreign Office. The other was Major Hore-Belisha in the Board of Trade. Both are very dapper, very efficient young men, with imposing records at Oxford and in the Army. When Major Hore-Belisha was promoted to Minister of Transport most of his friends were afraid that he was being laid upon a very stuffy shelf. They need not have worried. Leslie Hore-Belisha, freed of the self-abasement expected of an Under-Secretary, has proved...
Surrealist Dali, 29, is called a Parisian because that city has been his home for six years. Actually he is a Spaniard, an admirer, friend and onetime disciple of his fellow Catalan expatriate Pablo Picasso. It is hard enough for any surrealist to explain what he means, but dapper, quick little Salvador Dali was additionally handicapped last week by the fact that he speaks no English at all. Still he made a valiant effort. Reporters were ushered into his hotel suite which had been prepared as a visual object lesson. In the centre of the room was a small table...
...investment. It also meant a chance to win $150,000, $75,000 or $50,000 for tickets on the horses which took first, second or third places. But there were 37 horses entered in the race. And at the Ritz-Carlton last week sat a big, bland, dapper, young Briton ready to pay from $3.500 to $16,800 cash for tickets on a large number of likely winners...