Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Frenchmen know that thrifty President Franklin Delano Roosevelt has a fat little fortune, they would approve if in marrying off an only daughter he dowered her with 20% of it in tax-exempt bonds. Such was the ratio observed last week by shrewd, earthy, peasant-born Premier Pierre Laval when, like equally plebeian Premier Benito Mussolini, he prepared to marry off his José to a count...
Dictator Mussolini is a writer and what he is paid by the Hearst papers is supposed to be as great as his fame. He also owns Italy's leading daily and his Government controls the Press. Monsieur Laval, as he says, is a lawyer. As fat fees have rolled in during the years, he has piled investment on shrewd investment, now owns several estates and a frowning medieval castle...
...handled the sensational Midvale Steel financing during the War when the stock rose from 290 to 500. He refinanced American Woolen Co. and Tobacco Products Co., launched Cuban Cane Sugar Co., got control of Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co., organized Submarine Boat Corp. and the Wright-Martin Aeroplane Co. Fat, good-natured, bald, a tireless worker, a devoted family man, Thompson chewed tobacco, underpaid his employes and, as one of the greatest gamblers of his time, discharged them for gambling. He collected minerals, built beautiful homes, but remained dissatisfied, constantly groped for guidance with writers and thinkers whose intellectual stature...
Last week Editor Ansley sent his "Z's" to the printer. True to his word, he had crammed a goodly amount of the world's knowledge into one fat volume of 5,000,000 words. To save space he had done away with pictures and paragraphing, abbreviated mountain to mt., county to co. Staff-written, the encyclopedia had required the efforts of some 200 writers. In an off-hand moment Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler, finding the volume good, named it the Columbia Encyclopedia. The Columbia Press priced it at $17.50, promised delivery some time...
Unmindful of literary bores who tell the plots of stories they hope to write, Author Maugham in Don Fernando subtly recreates the atmosphere in which his unwritten novel was to have been laid. A master of indirection, he begins unobtrusively with an account of contemporary Don Fernando, fat, dirty tavern keeper who forced on him a biography of Saint Ignatius Loyola. Ignatius, who disappointed a noble family, sacrificed his influence with the great, and in the flower of his youth went to live among the poor, captured Author Maugham's imagination. He visited the town where Loyola had suffered...