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...hour and a half late to his own inauguration and late to almost every public ceremony thereafter. He called himself "The Late Mayor." He filled city offices with sluggish Tammany favorites. He kept a wardrobe of 70 $165 suits, drove about the city in a $17,000 Duesenberg. He lolled happily at the fabulous Central Park Casino with his mistress, musical comedy star Betty Compton (whom he afterwards married). Jazz-happy New York loved...
...wanted to stick pins in him to see if he had hemophilia. He had no Hapsburg lip either, but he did have cigar boxes chockablock with $1,000 bills, though no one ever got really close enough to find out if they were real. He scooted around in a Duesenberg and gave fancy dinner parties (guests remembered, later, that a waitress always read the menu...
Last year Cord Corp., holding working control of Auburn and other Cord subsidiaries, made $306,691 while Auburn turned in another of its whopping losses, $1,522,843. Presumably one of new President Manning's major interests will be trying to sell more Cord, Duesenberg and Auburn automobiles. On the new board of directors formed to assist in this endeavor, one name made news this week: Republic Steel's Chairman Tom Mercer Girdler...
...races in Tacoma. He worked in a garage. In his early 20s he became a flash automobile salesman for the old Moon agency in Chicago. In 1924 he walked into the subdued Auburn company, made it hum, became its president in less than a year. He bought control of Duesenberg, the Lycoming motor works and the Stinson passenger airplane business. By the end of 1933 Cord Corp. controlled not only these plus Auburn but Aviation Corp. (American Airways), Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp. and New York Shipbuilding Corp...
...Pasadena, G-men found odd evidence linking Hunt and Divine and indicating Hunt's status in the cult. This was a partly-completed "throne car," being built by a coach works. It was to cost from $25,000 to $40,000 and specifications called for a 265-m.p. Duesenberg motor on a 178-inch wheelbase, the tonneau to contain a raised throne surrounded by seats for eight people, with star-shaped windows on each side and a crescent one in the rear (see cut, p. 59). The top was designed, at the touch of a button, to swing back...