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Magnin's customers are the richest and swankest between the Gulf of California and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Four-fifths of them run charge accounts, and, on Magnin's balance sheet, customer accounts are nearly three times as large as inventory and amount to 45% of all assets. But Magnin's has been in the red only twice-in 1932 and in 1906, the year of the San Francisco earthquake-fire when merchandising activities had to be carried on in the Magnin house...
Following his pitched battle three weeks ago with honest but inept Ras Desta Demtu, son-in-law of Haile Selassie, Graziani took a long chance, cut a whole brigade of motorized cavalry loose from their base, sent them dashing north on half rations through some of the richest country in Ethiopia. Tactfully to stem the flood of personal publicity about Benito Mussolini's aviator sons, one of the first orders of Marshal Badoglio on taking command last November stated that henceforth neither the names of officers nor the movement of troops would be mentioned in dispatches. For his friend...
...part of his body other than his feet, or 2) push him out of the circular 12-ft. dirt ring. Since this usually takes less than a minute and Japanese wrestling matches last all day, most of the time is devoted to ceremonies in which sumo is the richest pastime in the world...
Grocer-Senator. Born 61 years ago in Providence, R. I., Abby Greene Aldrich Rockefeller has known great wealth and its power all her life. Her father, the late Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, onetime grocer, was probably the richest man ever to enter the U. S. Senate. When he died in 1915 he left a fortune of over $30,000,000 largely made out of banking, sugar, rubber, public utilities, tractions. But Nelson Aldrich was also one of the most potent men ever to enter the Senate. With Platt of Connecticut, Spooner of Wisconsin and Allison of Iowa, he practically...
Unable to stand on both feet, Marian Anderson managed to exhibit one of the richest contralto voices that has been heard in the U. S. for many a year. One Viennese critic described her as "a black Lilli Lehmann." That she is not. But she is an exciting, sure-voiced singer who would make any race proud. Her Handel songs instantly revealed a breadth and nobility of style. Her Schubert Ave Maria was not something interpolated to catch popular fancy; it was fervent, even as an organ tone, deeply impressive. Even more moving...