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Last March 21, Paul Reynaud became Premier of France. Power fit him well, but was ungainly on the Countess de Fortes. She began to fancy herself as a power in the State, and while France's troubles grew graver, her meddling voice grew shriller. She got hysterical when Frenchmen whispered that France's fleur de Us was being crowded by a faded fleur du lit. At Tours and at Bordeaux, she was constantly in Government hair. Then Reynaud, France, and Countess de Portes's hopes for grandeur fell...
...France, newspapers were in a graver plight than in England. A Government edict forced them to reduce consumption of paper by one-half. This order limits them to two pages (a single sheet) five days a week, four pages twice a week...
Last week Husband Aherne had graver matters on his mind. With her career in pictures assured by Rebecca, and Frank Lloyd waiting to star her in Columbia's The Tree of Liberty, Cinemactress Fontaine was gravely ill in a Los Angeles hospital...
...portly, potbellied, black-mustachioed Philadelphia lawyer named John Graver Johnson (tops among U. S. corporation lawyers and trust protectors of his time) drew up a noteworthy document. It was an iron-clad lease by which Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. promised to pay 49 small traction companies $7,100,000 a year for 999 years for the privilege of running its street cars over their right of way. For the stockholders of the 49 underlying companies-among them the Wideners, the Elkinses and other First Philadelphia Families-this was a mighty fine deal. Their original investment in one case consisted...
...shade of John Graver Johnson and to the 49 underliers the decision was a blow. As late as 1928 the city was on the point of condemning their property for a handsome $149,000,000. But last week the 25,000 underlier stockholders got $31,973,597 worth of bonds bearing 3% interest ($959,207 a year) and another 3% if it is earned. The underliers also got $12,300,000 of preferred stock...