Word: debonaire
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Broker Joseph Sisto, debonair son of Italian immigrants, spoke no English until he was ten, worked his way through high school and Wall Street to found his own firm in 1922. His first suspension was the result of overexpansion nipped by depression. Broker Sisto, good friend of Benito Mussolini, was in Italy visiting his many clients there when the crash came. He sped home, quickly arranged to pay his creditors 50? on the dollar, made up the balance with shares in Sisto Financial Corp., his personal investment trust...
Huge Radio Corp. of America not only makes music on the air through National Broadcasting Co. but also sells its patrons radio sets, tubes, phonographs, records. NBC's thriving rival, Columbia Broadcasting System, until last week had no such manufacturing interests. Then its debonair young President William S. Paley announced that CBS had purchased American Record Corp., was thus "broadening the base of its service along natural lines...
Died. Clarence Hungerford Mackay, 64. board chairman of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., husband of onetime Opera Singer Anna Case, father of Mrs. Irving Berlin; after long illness; in Manhattan. From his Irish immigrant father, who made a fortune gold-mining, dapper, debonair, lavishly educated Clarence Mackay inherited Postal Telegraph, worked it up to a $500,000,000 world-wide system. As a Manhattan socialite he played godfather and chief guarantor to many an artistic institution, including the New York Phil-harmonic-Symphony, until Depression began to gnaw away the income from his tremendous fortune...
...latest March of Time, recently reviewed and recommended by this department, the University's current bill offers two excellent comedies. Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone, as two of the loves in "Three Loves has nancy," account for the success of this film and give smooth portrayals of drunken, debonair men about town. Janet Gaynor is cast in the role of Nancy, a wide-eyed little bumpkin who comes to New York, churns her own butter, smiles at strange men and strikes a note of innocence and simplicity in the empty, superficial lives of her aforementioned loves. Although Miss Gaynor takes...
...When debonair, mustachioed Elisha Huson Waterman last week became kingpen of L. E. Waterman Co., the 2,000 astonished employes of this famed old fountain-pen concern could well imagine his father, Frank Dan Waterman, turning furiously in his grave. Thirteen years ago, crusty, conservative President Frank Dan kicked Elisha out of his $6,500 job in the company and banished him from the family. Last month, when bitter old Frank Dan died, he left Elisha a mere $100. Scarcely was the Waterman ink dry on the will when Elisha quietly played the trump card he had held...