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...born in rural Germany but raised in a teeming tenement district of Manhattan, well knows the housing conditions that exist and are for the most part steadfastly ignored, even denied, in every city in the land. Alfred Emanuel Smith and other political friends of Senator Wagner with city backgrounds lent him their support in pushing the idea of slum clearance with Federal funds on a self-amortizing basis. Thus it came about that Reconstruction Finance Corp.'s $1,500,000,000 new capital voted late in June was made available for replacing dark, filthy, unsanitary city stink-holes with...
...elements of the case easily lent themselves to burlesque. Mrs. Pollak, who wore her long bobbed hair curled at the ends Garbo-wise, had been married three years to Joseph Pollak, back-of-the-stockyards bootlegger and money lender. She suspected him of philandering with a Mrs. Julia Cebulski. One afternoon last July Mrs. Pollak was unable to locate either her husband or Mrs. Cebulski. When her husband returned to the flat that evening she shot him. Said she afterward: "That was a dirty trick I did to poor...
...made vice president of Drug Inc., $60,000,000 Liggett holding company. Mr. Clark became Mr. Liggett's Washington lobbyist. He worked against higher duties on drugs and toilet articles in the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, against taxes on cosmetics in the 1932 Revenue Act. Drug Inc. has lent him to the White House, will pay his salary as its campaign contribution...
...business trip, she fell without much of a struggle to Managua, professional lady-killer, and took the affair so hard that her conscience went to her head, nearly drove her off it. Edmond was so nice about it that she gave up lady-killers for a long Lent. Edmond's father died, Denise rushed Edmond to the throne, encouraged him into such a multiplicity of ventures that at last he failed. But by that time they had so much practice in being partners, Denise had unlearned so much intolerance, learned a few good lessons so well, that...
Kreuger Aftermath. Whom did Ivar Kreuger not deceive? Last week another name was added to the small list of bankers and firms which doubted the late felonious match tycoon. It was that of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. of Manhattan. In January 1931, the bank lent Kreuger & Toll $1,000,000. Vice President Roger Whittlesey then began to check up on Kreuger & Toll statistics, to search for more adequate information. He wrote letters abroad, never received convincing answers. In September the loan was called...