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...live goat (non-political); the bandeau from the head of New York's most gracious hostess; a hair from Kermit Roosevelt's mustache (if he will permit such familiarity); a live turtle; the most beautiful woman in New York not yet present at the party; a bottle of good champagne unopened until passed on by the judges; any bird (not canaries or common sparrows); the future Mayor of New York, or his signature dated tonight; the autographed bodice or "stepin" of one of New York's most popular actresses; the private visiting list of Miss Juliana Cutting...
...Kermit Roosevelt, 44, able second son of the late great Theodore and founder-president of Roosevelt Steamship Co., was elected a director of Atlas Tack Corp. Elected at the same time was John Sargent, partner of President Roosevelt's eldest son James in the Lawson Insurance Agency of Boston...
...dividends have been paid in 13 years and as many deficits as profits have been reported. It still makes 7,000,000 lb. of tacks a year, also brads and rivets, but its line of 24,000 items now includes metal buttons, shoe eyelets, bottle caps. The faith of Kermit Roosevelt et al in tacks and bottle caps was partly justified by Atlas' earning for the first six months: $20,000 profit against a $40,000 deficit in the first half...
...Ships. Kermit Roosevelt and John Franklin (son of P. A. S. Franklin), vice presidents of the U. S. Lines, last week informed Merchant Fleet Corp. (subsidiary of the U. S. Shipping Board) that they would like to lay up the Leviathan, or better still sell it back to the U. S. Reason: the contract by which the Leviathan was purchased requires it to make seven Atlantic crossings a year; competition from new foreign ships and reduced ocean travel cause so great a loss on each crossing that it eats up the Line's profits from other ships. Merchant Fleet...
President-elect Roosevelt, with some 60 candidates to pick from, announced that he would not announce his Cabinet until after his return from a cruise aboard Vincent Astor's Nourmahal about mid-February. An unexpected guest on that cruise, it developed last week, would be Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late President, fifth cousin of the President-elect. Thus was seen a patch-up between the Republican and Democratic branches of the Roosevelt family. An ardent Hooverite, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth wrote a note of congratulation to fifth Cousin Franklin shortly after his election. Last week Mrs. Longworth...