Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Panda Poker Club of Louisville, Ky., Mrs. Ettie Garner last week wrote that her husband Cactus Jack "left off the practice [of playing poker] a good many years ago." With the poker & whiskey vote lined up for him by John L. Lewis' attack last fortnight Mr. Garner announced in Texas: "I'm going to get eviler every day." He went bass-fishing at once with his crony, Ross Brumfield, Uvalde garage...
...Mr. Garner's Presidential nomination last week plumped genial, ineffectual Samuel Rayburn, who is Franklin Roosevelt's floorleader in the House but Mr. Garner's political heir...
...inevitable as a cheese crouton in tomato bisque is Fujiyama in the background of a Japanese print. To Japanese the symmetrical, snow-shawled, 12,395-foot-high cone is sacred. They call it "Mr. Fuji," and climb it in droves, usually starting at sundown and taking about twelve hours. Seeing dawn from the rim of Fuji's long-dead crater is considered a sort of virtuously ecstatic act, like seeing a vision. Last week 13 disabled Japanese war veterans declared their intention of "demonstrating national spirit" by stumping up Mr. Fuji on their honorable peg legs...
...Europe, leaving the business in charge of its old employes. One day in London he ran into Mitchell Kennerley. Kennerley (who had been a publisher) was owner of another big Manhattan auction house-the Anderson Galleries. Bishop asked him whether he would like to sell the Anderson Galleries. Mr. Kennerley agreed (for $500,000) and the two firms were merged in October...
...Kennerley again. Hiram Parke resigned. So did Vice President Otto Bernet. With them departed most of the American Art Association's experts, auctioneers, appraisers, to found the new Parke-Bernet Galleries around the corner, leaving Mitchell Kennerley as president with what remained of his old Anderson Galleries staff. Mr. Kennerley did a good job of selling the Bishop books. But last year Widow Bishop and Friend Nixon, summering together in Paris, up and sold the Galleries for a mere $175,000 to Milton B. Logan, onetime real-estate agent, and Insurance Broker John T. Geery...