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Also occurred last week many a suicide which had no apparent connection with the Great Depression. A Manhattan peanut peddler shot himself because he was ill. Because his daughter eloped, a Maryland farmer did away with himself. Unexplained suicides (in addition to dozens for traditional reasons) included a wealthy paper manufacturer, a retired Marine Corps major, an Army sergeant in the Canal Zone, a dress manufacturer, the social secretary of the wife of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams...
...Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute. At their worst they are criminal rackets like Chicago's Master Cleaners & Dyers Association and the Greater New York Live Poultry Chamber of Com merce. Not much publicized are the Better Bedding Alliance of America, the Hickory Handle Association, the South western Peanut Shellers' Association. In the mighty realm of rolling mills and blast furnaces is the American Iron & Steel Institute. To head this trade group Rob ert Patterson Lament last week resigned as U. S. Secretary of Commerce. Presi dent Charles Michael Schwab will retire to an inactive chairmanship...
...Hollywood-this one, second product of Paramount's Elstree studio to be released in the U. S., suffers from poor photography and sound recording. Typical shot: Margot (Gertrude Lawrence) and Willie (Owen Nares) squabbling in an ornate night-club while a Negro orchestra in shirt-sleeves plays The Peanut Vendor amid a cloud of toy balloons...
...Aida, Frederick Jagel, Metropolitan Opera tenor, made his Cincinnati debut and when his first aria rang far out over the Zoo grounds the wisest of the monkeys knew that another season was safely under way, scratched their whiskers eagerly for the intermission peanut feast...
...Brigadier General Charles Gates Dawes the New York Stock Exchange is just a "peanut stand" (see p. 12), but to the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency the low price of Wall Street peanuts is a matter of grave concern. Fortnight ago the committee summoned Exchange President Richard Whitney, heard from him that not short selling or bear raids, but liquidation by "people who are trying to give these United States of ours away" is responsible for the currently depressed stock market (TIME, April 25). Last week the committee continued its bear hunt...