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...world was Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, gay, hard-bitten speculator whose low opinion of high-priced stocks was an early Depression legend. Reports quickly spread that Ben Smith was buying this or selling that, but it was soon learned that Ben Smith had acquired a new interest on his junket. In India he had learned much about shellac, had become convinced that the outlook for shellac was bright indeed. Last week it was learned that Ben Smith thought it would be a fine idea if a shellac futures market were established in Manhattan, similar to the one in London...
...crapshooters of the vintage of 1929. . . ." It is fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt flew via American Airways to Chicago to accept his nomination (paying for ten tickets); that Mrs. Roosevelt used American Airways on her western trip last year, and Postmaster General Farley on his Texas junket to "rediscover" Vice President Garner; that the Post Office Department has been willing to hold up a mail plane for an hour or so to suit the convenience of a Cord hot-shot official. But none of these harmless facts webs with others to produce any picture other than that of an alert...
Important members of the New York Stock Exchange have been going to Washington quite frequently in the last two years. One day last week Washington went to the Stock Exchange. On a self-financed week-end junket "to inspect the different things in New York we Legislators are legislating about," 100 Congressmen & wives trooped into the visitors' gallery, eyed the brokers' antics with astonishment. President Richard Whitney tried to explain what was going on but the junketing Congressmen soon left to see 90 tons of gold in the Federal Reserve vaults, to visit Ellis Island on fireboats...
...wives, and they were returning from 16 days of talking shop, seeing the sights and spreading goodwill in Cuba, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Members of the Pan American Medical Association, they had chartered the Panama-Pacific liner S. S. Pennsylvania, turned their Fifth Scientific Congress into a junket...
When his engagement with Socialite Eileen Gillespie was broken, young John Jacob Astor III chose the abandoned wedding-day to start a world-junket with three former schoolmates. By last week he had arrived in Shanghai, where he spent most of his time staring moodily out of the window in his room. Badgered by reporters young Astor blurted out that he was "trying to forget," added: "I don't like to discuss it. What more can I say?" Left alone, he turned again to the window...