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Last week the Senate Finance Committee dug deeper into the kind of foreign financing U. S. bankers do not discuss in detail on the front pages of the Press. Chief digger was white-crested Senator Hiram Johnson of California, determined to make political capital for his isolationist theory of foreign relations by exposing the loss of financial capital by U. S. investors in foreign securities. That his tactics annoyed the White House, the Department of State and the bankers, only spurred him on to greater inquisitiveness. Under scrutiny by the committee last week were loans to South American governments...
...Henry Pit. Yi agrees to provide her permanently with separate maintenance in her own house?an unprecedented concession from a Manchu. electrifying to all Chinese husbands. Deeply shocked, one conservative Peiping paper branded "this renegade concubine" as "no better than what is called in the United States 'gold-digger...
...letter to her sister (who has kept Shu Fei at a good Peiping hotel and paid her lawyers), China's Imperial Gold Digger justified herself thus...
Steuer v. Kresel. While Judge Corrigan was still smarting at being made the squire of 48 wayward dames, Tammany got in its first successful dig at the Seabury investigation. The digger was astute Lawyer Max D. Steuer, good Tammany man, father of a municipal judge. As a special investigator of the notorious Bank of United States failure, Mr. Steuer saw to it that the name of small, smart Isidor Jacob Kresel ? Seabury counsel, onetime director of, lawyer for and borrower from the defunct bank ? was frequently brought into the damning Bank of U. S. testimony. Forthwith, Counsel Kresel...
Author & Artist. Rockwell Kent, 48, onetime well-digger, sailor, farmer, teacher, lobsterman, carpenter, architect, boatbuilder, has a passion for the sea, a passion for painting. Not afraid of solitude, he has lived and sailed much alone (from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego). To finance a trip to Alaska he once incorporated himself for $10,000, paid a 10% dividend. Last summer he painted a 6,400 sq. ft. canvas ceiling for the Dennis, Mass. "Cinema" (TIME, July 28). Last month he won his suit against Delaware & Hud son R. R. for resumption of passenger service between Ausable Forks (where...