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Schenley. Lewis Rosenstiel wanted to get out of the whiskey business when the years of the locust began but his family would not let him. So he sat down in Cincinnati to wait. He bought up stocks of medicinal whiskey, concentrated them in a warehouse in Schenley, Pa.-a move which, because of Governor Pinchot's tax, he sorely regretted last week. Later he bought the distillery that went with the warehouse and a few other distilleries. Last summer, having acquired a distributing unit and with it three capable whiskey men all named Jacobi, he organized Schenley Distillers Corp...
Argentine wheat farmers, overdue last week on their spring sowing, could not get a plow into the ground that a long drought had baked iron-hard. And due sometime next month was a dread enemy: the scourge of locusts trying to repeat their last year's feat of eating clean two northern provinces. Last week brought the farmers a good turn on both counts. Rain fell and softened the hard ground. And the Ministry of Agriculture got under way early against the locusts by announcing $5,000,000 worth of contracts for 12,000 mi. of sheet-iron locust...
...Jones Beach Lifeguard team: the national lifesaving tournament; at Jones Beach, L. I. Lifeguard Henry Holmes of Locust Valley, L. I. won the Medley swim, the dive for weights, the individual boat race...
...Frederick Ullman Jr., of Pathe and Writer Gilbert Seldes (The Seven Lively Arts) showed This Is America to an enthusiastic audience in Manhattan. This Is America is calculated to help satisfy the public appetite for recent history, lately .revealed and whetted by Author Seldes' The Years of the Locust and Frederick Allen's best-selling Only Yesterday. Cinematically it examines the state of the Union since 1917. These are some of the scenes of the nation's follies and accomplishments in the past 15 years: Front pages screaming WAR. Women knitting, soldiers tramping, Charlie Chaplin selling Liberty...
Outside the inn, the taxi which had brought the old man from nearby Locust Valley rattled away hesitatingly. The driver was wondering where he had seen his passenger before. Was it in Locust Valley? Was it in the newspapers? When he got home next morning he described the old man to his wife. She said she had seen him too the day before, and she knew who he was. She told a New York Herald Tribune reporter that it was Joseph W. Harriman, the defamed bankster whose escape the previous day from the Regent Nursing Home in Manhattan, where...