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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Church and great officers of the realm was the Banco Bombelli a few days ago. Its chairman, bland, steady-eyed, imposing Commendatore Jorio, inspired Cardinals with confidence, competitors with fear. He was rumored to sit spider-high in the Fascist web of Star Chamber courts which sentence men to exile and rot on 77 Duce's penal islands. Last week the Banco Bombelli, small but among the oldest and most select in Rome, failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vampires & Exploiters | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...sign, unless an article in the Papal daily L'Osservatore Romano could be called such. In an article flaying "Market Vampires and , Exploiters," Editor Count Dalla Torte lamented that "the fate of the great world of investors is left to the caprice and enchanted power of a handful of men who caused the world to be shaken between 10 a. m. and noon." No libeller, the Count did not name any particular Wall Street operator as a vampire of enchanted power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vampires & Exploiters | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Other Men's Wives. Elaborate and stupid tale of a French wayside inn with Claiborne Foster, orthodox detectives, lingerie, disguises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...lady he is vice president of Phelps-Dodge Co. To flower fanciers he is known for the unique arrangement of his Park Avenue mansion: the bedrooms open on a central hothouse filled with orchids, whose perfume lulls to sleep and soothingly awakens the James household. But to railroad men, and to the general public, Arthur Curtiss James is the man who owns more railroad stocks than any one else in the country. Great are his holdings in the Great Northern?Northern Pacific?Chicago, Burlington & Quincy group. His Western Pacific holdings are even more extensive. Strangely, in this present battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Battle in the West | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

From the Ritz jumped two men hand-in-hand. They had held a joint account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Heroes, Wags, Sages | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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