Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
This, on the word of knowing Nancy Randolph, society reporter of the proletarian New York News, was what cafe society thought about the Whitney crash last week. Cafeteria society was shocked, too, and downtown they were taking it harder than any other financial scandal of the century. True, Joseph Wright Harriman and Bernard K. Marcus had misapplied bank funds and been sent to jail. Charley Mitchell was penalized for tax deficiencies and Al Wiggin had paid off stockholders to stop their suits. There was old Sam Insull, too, although Wall Street is never very surprised at the shenanigans...
...Yacht Club wanted the club's securities back. Missing now was a total of $109,384 in securities the club had trusted to Treasurer Whitney. Assistant Attorney General McCall found them at Public National Bank as part collateral for the Whitney loan, and, as the Daily News's news section put it, "Richard Whitney ... for the second time in 24 hours [was] fingerprinted and mugged like a Hell's Kitchen package thief and held in $25,000 bail...
...youth organizations, to represent 15,000,000 U. S. citizens between 16 and 25. Actually, the A. Y. C. is composed mainly of the more militantly left-wing members of its subsidiary groups. Most articulate representative in Washington last week was Editor Vivian Liebman of the Vassar Miscellany News, who informed a Senate Subcommittee on Education & Labor, that "our future husbands will probably not graduate out of the fraternity into the flophouse. Vassar students are drawn from the wealthier 10% . . . but this cannot close our eyes to what is happening to the girls of the other...
That versatile Artist Salvador Dali should be working on a surrealist ballet is hardly surprising. But it was news last week when one of the parts was offered to antic, woolly-wigged Comedian Harpo Marx. The proffered role: "an immobile figure plunged into the depths of total despair, who then emerges from his state of hallucination and goes into paroxysms of the most frantic choreographic delirium...