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...Manhattan. Mrs. Cushing is the daughter of Reginald Vanderbilt,* aged 48. Said Cholly Knickerbocker, Hearst's "Society Editor": "The infant will 20 years hence dance about at the same débutante parties with his auntie." Said Débutante, Society Editor for the Daily News, Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet: "Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt, not yet 20, is the youngest grandmother in Society...
Representative Percy E. Quin, Democrat from Mississippi, rose in the House to speak. He placed his quid of chewing gum on the speaker's table and proceeded...
...excitement, Mr. Quin pounded the table. His gum broke loose from its moorings and began to roll from side to side, flirting with the edge of destruction. At last, Representative James H. MacLafferty of California rose and interposed: "Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman will yield, I wish to state to him that he is in imminent danger of losing his chewing gum...
...girl machinates to marry her elder sister off to a young man who has just struck oil and is therefore eligible. The girl loves him herself, but is willing to sacrifice him to keep him in the family. But the youth her sister really loves comes into a chewing gum fortune, thereby re-establishing his status as a suitor. Sister throws her fiancê over, and the flapper catches the oil magnate on the rebound...
...Blodgett's main defect, as the committee views it, in his enthusiasm for more salary. He was, it is claimed, placed in the Presidency by bankers who had control of the Company, although he was quite innocent of any knowledge of the chewing-gum industry. Blodgett, however, apparently knew a trick worth two of that. His salary was increased from $20,000 to $50,000; and the increase was made retroactive for the previous year and a quarter. In the opinion of the committee the business did not warrant this munificence...