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...daring, took over as chairman of the Bond Sales Committee, set out to sell $27,829,500 in 4% fair debentures. But by February 1937 only $20,000,000 of the bonds had been sold and Grover Whalen had to pull a high-pressure stunt out of his black fedora. With the greatest of ease Maestro Whalen invented the Terrace Club, purportedly swank dining & wining place on the fair grounds, with a membership restricted to those who would subscribe to $5,000 of fair bonds. Even so, banks had to absorb the final $3,500,000 worth...
When Ambassador Pedro Martinez Fraga squired him to the White House. Boss Batista tactfully changed his uniform and spurs for a sporty grey suit and blue fedora. Franklin Roosevelt talked to him half an hour about Cuba. Afterward, Batista bubbled: "I was able to ascertain the enormous goodness in the President's character...
Motionless in a wheelchair, swathed in blankets, his tired old face shaded by a broad fedora. Major Andrew Summers Rowan, 81, last week listened to a seven-gun salute in his honor on the lawn of Letterman General Hospital at San Francisco's Presidio (U. S. Army post). He also listened to a flowery speech by a gentleman in smoked glasses, Consul José Zarza of the Cuban Republic. The speech said that Major Rowan had performed a feat that was "an everlasting lesson" which "covered your army with glory," a deed for all to "love, admire and emulate...
...years Mr. Widener has been administrator of Philadelphia's Wil-stach Fund, income from which must be used to buy paintings for the city's Pennsylvania Museum of Art. With the seven-year accrual of $160,000 in his drawing account and his usual pearl-grey fedora on his head, Turfman Widener set out for Europe last year to scout for bargains. "I am not sympathetic with modern art," said Mr. Widener blandly. "What I think we should do is acquire the classics-those paintings which have lived through the centuries." Uppermost in Mr. Widener's mind...
...third-floor office in the gloomy old Federal Building in Minneapolis one morning last week, Special Master in Chancery Howard Strickland Abbott donned his black topcoat, his grey fedora, picked up his brief case and set out for the yards of Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. It was Mr. Abbott's duty to put that dilapidated 1,600-mi. railroad on the auction block. By court order he was to offer the road at "the main entrance of the division superintendent's office at the Cedar Lake Shops." Arriving at the precise spot on the second floor...