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...where Wall Street had failed. Through Son-in-law John Charles Martin, Mr. Curtis poured money lavishly into the Evening Post, gave it the finest new plant in the city. Socialite Julian Starkweather Mason was hired as editor to give the sheet circulation. But still the Post did not fatten and thrive. Lately it has been losing money at the rate of $25,000 per week. When the experiment of making it a tabloid last September failed Publisher Martin could think of only one more thing. By last fortnight, all New York knew that the Post would presently be sold...
...Parisian circles which fatten on tourists and rich appetites, a potent name is that of Clement ("Clem") Hobson. Out of Britain came Mr. Hobson some years ago to buy famed Ciro's restaurant on the Rue Daunou, later to control the music hall-restaurant des Ambassadeurs in the Champs-Elysées and several famed hot spots in Biarritz...
...boast that John Bull was the first paper to call Germans "Huns." He gave David Lloyd George his two campaign slogans "HANG THE KAISER!" and "MAKE THE HUN PAY!" No paper was more obliging with atrocity stories; none, when the War was over, quicker to fatten on anti-U. S. prejudice. MORE SWANK FROM THE YANKS was one of his favorite headlines. He was passionately addicted to just one brand of champagne, Pommery Nature, 1906, and bought up almost the entire vintage. Before each of his roaring speeches, for which he was paid enormous fees, Horatio Bottomley would gulp half...
Because the cold waters make phlegmatic British oysters disinclined to spawn, thousands of yearling U. S. oysters are imported to British waters annually, planted in British beds. U. S. oysters will not procreate in British waters. Like eunuchs they fatten but remain sterile...
Fond and normal though he is as a grandfather, strange as the ways of the Kookaburra* are the financial maneuvers of Premier John Thomas Lang of New South Wales, eccentric Laborite. Weeks ago he proposed to fatten the flabby treasury of his province by issuing "turnip money," i.e. paper money secured not by gold, but by the natural wealth of the country, turnips, mutton, wheat, etc. (TIME, Feb. 23). Dissuaded from this he next proposed that Australia should insist that Great Britain give her as favorable terms of debt settlement as Great Britain had received from the U. S. Last...