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...liveried chauffeur in a limousine drove to Sing Sing prison and delivered a small oriental rug which was spread on the floor of a cell occupied by Saul Singer, executive vice president of the late Bank of United States (biggest U. S. bank ever to fail), serving three to six years for fenegling with the bank's funds. The same day trial began to recover assessments of $25 a share from 170 stockholders of the failed bank, and Mr. Singer faced the prospect of a temporary vacation from his soft-carpeted cell to testify...
...President Roosevelt's study on the second floor of the White House stands a big black leather couch. It is comfortably low and squashy, holds four grown men. Many long sittings have worn off most of its shine. Before it on the floor lies a tiger- skin rug and within easy reach is a pedestal ashtray. The couch's deep easy pitch not only relaxes the body but loosens the tongue to friendly informal talk. If the World Economic Conference, opening in London June 12, proves a success, it will be due in no small measure to last...
Producer Zanuck is fond of telephones that fall apart, flypaper seats, and of "ribbing" his friends in a high rasping voice. Once at a Hollywood party he was found trying to write a story under a rug. His friend and immediate superior, Vice President Jack Warner, opposed Zanuck's resignation last week. Outsiders wondered whether President Harry Warner, ready to cut off his nose to spite his face, had cut off his head instead. Zanuck plans to produce 12 pictures a year with his new company. He will be paid $4,500 a week, 50% of the profits...
...Memphis, Tenn., Union Planters National Bank & Trust Co. accepted the gift of a large rug patterned after a $5 Federal Reserve note. The U. S. Treasury Department had ruled it did not constitute a counterfeit...
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