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...another large Cleveland bank, Guardian Trust Co. But Cleveland businessmen raised their eyebrows skeptically over the rash of bank indictments that followed, including one against Guardian Trust's homely, church-loving President James Arthur House. They were ready to listen ast week to the explanations of Messrs. Mutt and Van Sweringen who swore that their deal was a perfectly routine business transaction in which the bonds happened to be bought one week and sold the next. Said Mr. Van Sweringen: "These were open and shut purchases and sales of properties for cash. Now perfectly simple transactions are being construed...
...Manhattan court Cartoonist Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher (Mutt & Jeff) asked that his $400 weekly alimony payment to Aedita S. Fisher (onetime Countess de Beaumont) be cut to $100. He said that Depression had reduced the income from his comic strip from $52,000 per year to $26,000, forced him to sell his racing stable...
...Easter visitors watched Tommy Adair and 149 other less well-bred dogs straggle crookedly down the resort city's wide boardwalk. An American Legion band blared martially while the dogs tugged or were tugged by small owners who had entered them in Ocean City's second annual Mutt Show. Proudly heading the line ambled an ingratiating, yellowish mongrel named Hobo Ocean City who makes the boardwalk his year-round home. Barred from competition because he was champion Mutt last year, he was chosen host this year...
...only qualifications for entrance in the Mutt Show were four legs and a bark. Aristocratic lineage won purebreds no favors. The American Legion (sponsors) saw to that by choosing as judges three men utterly ignorant of dogs. No expert could have deciphered the scrambled strains in a waggling pup named Peanuts, and no expertness was needed to tell that he deserved a prize for being "cute...
While newsreel cameras chirred, 48 other prizes, mostly collars and harnesses, were awarded to owners of largest, smallest, shortest-haired, longest-haired, oddest dogs. There was only one disappointment: by an oversight the judges failed to honor, as advertised, the mutt with the most fleas...