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...surprising. That the cream of London's daughters of vice should be paying tribute to an ex-Devil's Islander able to enforce his rule by trans-Channel assassination, was downright shocking. According to police, "Vice Lord" Vernon's women have been recruited from the poorer classes in Poland and Eastern Europe. They all know how to lisp in French-English and large numbers, after being "burnt out" in London, have been exported to South America, the sink into which the dregs of the world's illicit professionals drain...
...shipping, American Chain worked out a semi-automatic process for quick anchor-chain production, supplied the entire Wartime anchor-chain requirements of the U. S. Government. Shortly after the Armistice, Mr. Lashar issued an advertisement headed "The Honor in Our Discharge from the Service," said that the company was "poorer in pocketbook" on account of government contracts, that "there has been no taint of profiteering in our escutcheon." He built himself a million-dollar, 100-room residence at Fairfield, Conn., and the company, rapidly expanding, acquired Page Steel & Wire Co. and two small steel companies, sources of raw material...
...royal kitchens, which paid a small salary but opened opportunities for graft, even more opportunities to collect valuable information. He probably killed his patron, although the charge was never proved. He certainly married his patron's wealthy widow soon afterward. But at her death he was unexpectedly left poorer than he had ever been...
Canadians boast the greatest per capita wealth in the world, $3,148. Even more blessed is the Province of Alberta, with $3,518 per head. Yet Depression has hit Alberta hard. For years its breezy, two-fisted, hospitable citizens have been feeling poorer & poorer. Galavanting to the polls last week, they raised merry Empire hell by turning over their province to a Bible-babbling high-school principal who promises to crack open Alberta's frozen wealth and pay dividend" of every at bona least fide $25. citizen a "monthly dividend" of at least...
Alice Adams (RKO). The tests of time and translation into cinema have had an unpredictable effect upon the Booth Tarkington novel which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. Then it was a sad little story about a small-town girl so ashamed because her parents were poorer than those of her friends that, when a glamorous visitor fell in love with her, she destroyed her one real chance of happiness by carrying on an absurd pretense of being richer and more popular than she was. Nowadays,, because people whose circumstances are as comfortable as those of the Adams family seem...