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...pawnbroking is a $600,000,000 a year business. Reputedly the oldest and most celebrated U. S. pawnshop is that of William Simpson, Inc., which was founded in Manhattan by a family which had been pawnbroking in England for five generations. One William Simpson or another has lent money to Steve Brodie, Boss Tweed, Commodore Vanderbilt and Tony Pastor. John L. Sullivan used to hock his diamond-studded championship belt at Simpson's for $400. Evalyn Walsh McLean pawned her Hope Diamond there to get the $100,000 Gaston Means swindled from her as ransom for Charles A. Lindbergh...
...have the message of a great Democratic President read . . . that it was 'a relic of constitutional government.' ... I merely desire to indicate now that I am not one of the Senators who is proud of the fact that some people in Virginia want to make a pawnshop out of the Treasury of the U. S. . . . Mr. President, I had not purposed to raise a riot of oratory...
Into an Oklahoma City pawnshop stepped a pretty young woman to borrow money on a wedding ring, a gold medal, a gold football, a pin of Yale's famed Skull & Bones Society. Each was engraved: E. H. COY-YALE U. "Could it be Ted Coy, the Yale athlete?" ventured the pawnbroker. "Yes," said the girl, "I am his wife...
Died. Albert Dalimier, 61, oldtime French politician, member of twelve French Cabinets; after a long illness; in Paris. In 1932, while Minister of Labor, he dispatched circular letters recommending investment in the unsound Bayonne municipal pawnshop bonds offered by arch-Swindler Alexandre Stavisky. He resigned the day Stavisky's body was found, was ousted from the Radical Socialist Party during the scandal that followed...
...before she was his wife, may never have been his confidante and accomplice, as the State now charges, but credulity was strained last week when the other 19 defendants sought to join her in a parade of injured innocents. Why did M. Raoul Desbrosses, director of the Orleans municipal pawnshop, sign worthless bonds so that Stavisky might sell them? "Stavisky was desperate!" cried Defendant Desbrosses last week. "When I refused to sign, he drew a pistol, pressed it to his temple, and threatened to pull the trigger. I signed to prevent him from committing suicide and because I could...