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In the intermission, the young man and his girl got caught in the crush on the way upstairs to the bar-he had never seen so many jewels and furs in his life-and only just managed to get Scotch-and-soda (at $1.00 each) before the bell summoned them...
Portly John Jacob Astor, whose great-great-great-grandfather started the family fortune by gathering furs, only to have many of his male descendants dissipate parcels of their inheritance by giving furs away, was up to his patrician ears in the sort of misfortune that afflicts only the very rich...
Monte Carlo's summer season reached a social crescendo with an anti-polio March of Francs party featuring two hours of husky-throated songs by Marlene Dietrich. But Marlene seemed almost an anticlimax to Poet Jean Cocteau's freshly penned introduction, eloquently recited by French Cinemactor Jean Marais...
In principle, Congress had applauded the President's tax goal. But in an election year, principles are sometimes easily forgotten. Last week the House of Representatives, by an overwhelming 411-3 vote, chopped excise taxes on twelve items (including furs, jewelry, luggage, cameras, transportation) to a flat 10%, at...
To improve both his own position and that of the stricken real-estate owner, Crosby decided to seek better results from the state's personal-property tax. If Nebraskans had winked at the real-estate tax, they had guffawed at the personal-property tax. Few reported all personal property...