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...when the brisk, tough-thewed, iron-haired ex-banker began to talk business, it was clear that he had by no means lost the spirit which once prompted him to defy the Federal Reserve Board. With a gardenia in his lapel, faultlessly dressed in a dark grey suit, starched collar and pepper-&-salt cravat, he displayed the same earnest optimism which helped make his bank for a few years the biggest in the U. S. Cried...
...strokes, the stage is set for the introduction of the nephew's girl (Peggy Fears). He meets her at a vulgar tycoon's party next door, does not know that she is married. Wandering into the second act set, a superb garden with two great oaks and gardenia roses, Miss Fears falls in love with garden, house, young man. When she pronounces Rockefeller correctly he straightway takes her to his aunt who approves, and dies happily. The girl explains that she is married, that her coarse husband has been kind in his way. As she goes back...
Minnesota's Arthur W. Marget observed: ''Professors are steadily making recommendations that are systematically disregarded. If Mr. Prince can point out a single instance outside the Glass-Steagall bill where their advice has been taken on anything, I will award him a gardenia...
Companion of the gardenia boutonniere, the $100 ringside seat, the Charvet cravat, Corona Coronas is the mellow smoke of plutocracy, the incense stick of happy days. Best known of U. S. quality cigars, it used to sell for 60?. Last week Corona Coronas, sympathetically following most of its consumers into retrenchment, was offered at three...
Grover Jr., II, son of Manhattan's one-time Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, fell from his bicycle, gashed his neck on a picket fence...