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Fire destroyed "Bay Tree House" and about 150 rare Holland bay trees, valued at $30,000, on the Roslyn, L. I. estate of Clarence Hungerford Mackay, threatened a nearby greenhouse containing one of the most valuable orchid collections in the world...
...cold, consuming passion for Empire, loomed last week as a Chancellor of the Exchequer not much less striking than crippled Philip Snowden, who as Lord Privy Seal now holds a mere sincere. Mr. Chamberlain affects neither the icy monocle of his Peace-Prizing halfbrother, Sir Austen, nor the blatant orchid boutonniere of their late, great father "Old Joe." Neville used to be Lord Mayor of Birmingham, the Chamberlain family bailiwick. Once before he was Chancellor of the Exchequer but so briefly that he never brought in a budget (TIME, April 13). Recently, as Conservative campaign strategist, he rolled...
...Fashion, full-armed, and Gossip, first instruments of human culture and advancement. That these necessities have found a spokesman on Beacon Hill is a subject for congratulation. Such literature flowers from the good sub-soil of snobbery, without which no society could exist, a pale flower, but unquestionably an orchid...
Lawyer Samuel Untermyer, chief legal brains of Tammany Hall, is an elegant dresser, always sports an orchid bontonniere. He usually makes his opponents in court look shabby. Well does Counsel Seabury, who dresses sombrely, almost clerically, know this. When Lawyer Untermyer was defending District Attorney Grain last spring, on the first morning of the trial, Counsel Seabury and his young assistants marched into the courtroom tricked out in morning coats, with sponge-bag trousers and pink carnations, looking like the groomsmen of a wedding party...
...conservative, diversified investment trust of TriContinental's nature, handling of Selected Industries will cause much activity in the research department. It has a substantial interest in Thomas Young Nurseries, a New Jersey orchid farm, and is a large holder of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Rr. (100,321 shares). It has large tobacco investments including 102,-580 P. Lorillard, 29,000 Liggett & Myers. It has a "special interest" of 55,109 shares of Case, Pomeroy & Co., a securities house whose shares appear also in Reynolds Investing...