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...police reserves. Meanwhile the first duel resulting from Stavisky revelations was fought by Deputy André Hesse and Lawyer Joseph Beneix in the empty stadium of the Parc des Princes which can seat 20,000. The duelists missed each other twice and stalked furiously from the field. When dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe privately warned Premier Chautemps that he could no longer guarantee the safety of Cabinet members, the Chautemps Cabinet resigned, rioting stopped...
Most questions which the Senate Finance Committee asked Henry Morgenthau Jr. last week before confirming his appointment as Secretary of the Treasury were routine. One that was not, involved the status of Mr. Morgenthau's dapper financial adviser, Earle Bailie, of Manhattan. When his name came up, Michigan's Senator James Couzens called Mr. Morgenthau aside, whispered something in his ear. Three days later Adviser Bailie handed in his resignation and when reporters rushed to tell Senator Couzens, the rich Detroiter grinned & beamed...
...third of the Insull com pany's annual deficit. With 75% capacity attendance the box-office takings would amount to $138,500, leaving a $11,500 deficit. With a $75,000 reserve fund they felt they could go ahead. They asked for it, got it. Paul Longone, a dapper little Italian, was engaged as impresario. He was handed $79,000 and told it was all he could have to pay for his artists. The talent that Impresario Longone got for the money bears evidence to the passing of fantastic fees. Soprano Maria Jeritza, who opened many a Metropolitan season...
...knowing what to do with the derelict Trust, bankers called in the great engineering firm of Sanderson & Porter to find out whether it should be salvaged or scrapped. A younger brother and junior partner of the founder Hobart Porter was assigned the job. Blond, dapper, fond of horses and tennis, Seton Porter graduated from Yale in 1905. A good engineer, he was assistant manager of a construction company on the West Coast before he joined his brother's firm. He recommended that the Trust be salvaged. The bankers were willing to take his expensive advice if he would...
Louis Lepine, "King of the Paris streets," is dead. For eighteen years this suave, dapper little man ruled the greatest of continental cities as Prefect of Police, tamed the apaches, and with velvet-gloved truncheon put down each uprising of a notoriously restless populace. It was the quiet, tense efficiency of his regime which inspired the novels of Gaborlau, the mystery of Stevenson's "Suicide Club," and the dashing career of Arsene Lupin...