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...Clark Howell and his paper the Atlanta Constitution. In 1933 President Roosevelt offered Democrat Howell a fat diplomatic post which he declined on the ground he could serve party & nation better at home. Some of his friends said that the Constitution's publisher did not feel that his deflated pocketbook could afford the personal outlay required by such foreign service. Last week Mr. Howell changed his mind and decided to represent the U. S. abroad this summer, at Government expense...
More newsworthy than the canning of whole tomatoes, which was a full grown industry by 1911, is tomato juice and the tomato cocktail which, in five short years, has tickled the nation's palate and pocketbook with ever mounting success. Before 1928 tomato juice was used chiefly for invalids and babies who needed its vitamins. Packers did not produce enough to warrant keeping separate figures. The first recorded figure was 165,251 cases in 1929. In 1930 production soared to 1,316.299 cases. Last year as tomato juice took its place on nearly every restaurant menu in the land...
...bulk. At the Springfield, Mass. plant of Brewster & Co. Inc., onetime famed carriage makers, now wholly owned by Rolls-Royce, the chassis were to be lengthened and partly reshaped to fit Brewster bodies. Solid, expensive-looking, it is cheap enough to appeal to a certain type of Depression pocketbook, modish enough to suit a rich man's tastes. The sponsor of Rolls-Royce's latest innovation was almost the first man Rolls-Royce of America ever hired. John Swanel Inskip began selling Rolls-Royces in 1922. Grey-haired, affable, popular, he was elected president in 1929 just before...
...high in the councils of a company which is one of the chief offenders. Moreover, he is financially interested in the companies which are affected by the new order, and his great yen for justice in this case is all too intimately connected with his pocketbook. Apparently, he expected--somewhat naively, one is inclined to think--that any telegram from him would simply be assumed to proceed from the most altruistic reasons. For how could the boy who flew across the ocean with only a sandwich for company, who was so blushing and modest and gawky in the face...
...with a carving knife. Guffawing audiences find the skit the funniest in the show, because it seems the truest. Financially, Radio City is a thumping flop. The precise size of the deficit is unknown, but there is no doubt that the thump lands squarely on the Rockefeller pocketbook. Most of the land beneath the enterprise is owned (tax free) by Columbia University and for it Son John pays some $3,000,000 annually. For the buildings he guaranteed $100,000,000 from his own pocket, plus $65,000,000 which he got from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in return...