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...ANATOMY OF FRUSTRATION-H. G. Wells-Macmillan ($2). Typical Wells item, describing the philosophical work of a future thinker, an erudite and daring U. S. industrialist whose ideas on the obstacles to human progress are more familiar than Author Wells seems willing to admit...
Next Best Thing Devoted Nazis are fond of telling with utmost seriousness about the great German industrialist who found his daughter moping, tried to cheer her up by telling her she could have whatever she wanted for her birthday. "Alas, father, rich as you are, you cannot get me the only thing I want." "And what is that, daughter?" "Oh, if only I could have a child by Hitler!" With many a melting, impressionable Gretchen now in this state of mind, "Handsome Adolf" Hitler was seated last week at the Olympic Aquatic Stadium when a buxom female from Norwalk, Calif...
Unable to raise $3,000 bail, Marcus Alonzo Hanna III, great grandson & namesake of Cleveland's late great industrialist and President-maker, was clapped into Cleveland jail to await a Grand Jury hearing of a charge that he forged the name of his uncle, Dan Rhodes Hanna, onetime publisher of the Cleveland News, to a $200 check. A onetime newshawk of 27, "Mark" Hanna III was divorced last February by the daughter of Ohio Republican Boss Maurice Maschke. Two months ago, when his father Carl Hanna, coal tycoon, died, "Mark" Hanna was disinherited, failed to attend the funeral...
...violent scene at André de Venders' door which effectually frightens him out of the running. Unfortunately, Laurence is an unseen witness; she frightens him away too. To make the best of a bad bargain Isabelle marries Marc Salla-franque, an immensely rich but rather ridiculous industrialist...
...discounting Soviet bills. From 1924 to 1931 U. S. exports to Russia totaled about $600,000,000. These purchases were handled through Amtorg Trading Corp., the Soviet purchasing agency in Manhattan. Amtorg paid some cash, gave notes for the greater part of the Soviet obligations. Many a U. S. industrialist, suspicious of Soviet credit, was willing to sell his Soviet notes at a large discount. The Josefowitz', confident that Russia would pay its bills, bought the notes at from 25% to 40% less than their face value. As the Soviet Government redeemed its obligations, the Josefowitz family was said...