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...scheme is simple, must have been fun for the author. It consists of alternating Viereck verse and Viereck prose, chronologically arranged, the prose a commentary on the verse. If you don't mind getting your fingers a little greasy you may pull out many a ponderous plum from this fat Teutonic pudding. "The Hohenzollern family seems to have a talent for writing as well as for ruling. . . . My great-great-grand-uncle, Frederick the Great. . . ." Hohenzollern Viereck, it appears, has also been, if not a great ladies' man, at least a big woman's man. He tells...
...More Plum, When such financially august gentlemen were elected to the Board it was certain that the ghost would be laid. But there soon was evidence that it was a trying party. In Wall Street there is a phrase well known among bankers-"O. P. M." which means "Other Peoples' Money." Usually O. P. M. is used to solve problems, but in the Fox case although a total of $75,000,000 was put up last week, only $30,000,000 was 0. P. M., obtained by selling new bonds to the public. And Fox stock instead of being...
...unveiler: Stanley Baldwin who became Prime Minister in 1923, thereby almost breaking the heart of Lord Curzon who thought he should have had that plum, having worked for it all his life. Said honest Mr. Baldwin last week as he unveiled...
...ranks of Canada's Conservative party last week, old guard politicians grumbled at Leader Bennett's bestowal of Canada's sweetest diplomatic plum upon "Bill" Herridge. They recalled that "Bill" has never held public office until now, wondered if Miss Mildred had spoken to her brother...
...Hoover "Lame Duck" Congressman Richard Nash Elliott last week got one of the best jobs in the whole Federal service when he was appointed Assistant Controller General for a 15-year term at $8,000 per year.* After 14 years' House service he was rewarded with this big bright plum chiefly because, as chair man of the Public Buildings Committee, he had scotched the old "pork barrel'' method of Federal construction and inaugurated the Government's present "lump sum" system of public building. To him, too, goes much credit for the extensive housing program to beautify the Federal City...