Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latest example of the inept bogus is a telegram from the Realsilk Hosiery Company to Mr. Sinclair Lewis, published in facsimile in the New Republic. The advertiser offered Mr. Lewis four hundred and fifty dollars and the honor of being included in a series of "dignified advertisements" indorsing silk socks, to which Messers Floyd Gibbous, James Montgomery Flagg, and George Ade had lent their names and faces. The novelist's only duty was to give his photograph and approve the copy; one suspects that the Realsilk Hosiery Company has never seen Mr. Lewis...
...account for him. George F. Breen, famed as a "market maker." Harry Content ("most cold-blooded man in Wall Street"). Arthur William Cutten, once Chicago's best known bull. Marquis de San Miguel. Herbert L. Dillon of Eastman, Dillon &; Co. Stnyvesant Fish. Bertha, Joseph and Paolino Gerli (silk). Thomas Montgomery Howell, Chicago grain operator, who last summer cornered 70%, of the visible corn supply, squeezed shorts, said: "I go along, ask no quarter, don't give any." Coleman F. Madden, known on race tracks as "Handsome Coley," who recently told friends he "preferred Wall Street to the horses...
...reports that Russia had massed 70,000 Red Army soldiers near Vladivostok and more along her Manchurian frontier. Therefore more Japanese troops must be rushed into Manchuria?but how was the civilian Cabinet of Premier Ki Inukai to pay the cost? Japanese business has seldom been so bad. Silk, that leading Japanese export, slumped to a new low price last week. There remained only one more practicable move: "controlled inflation...
Informally correspondents were told: "The most serious feature of the situation in Japan at present is the collapse of agricultural values, including that of raw silk, to a price level at which the farmers who make up half Japan's population simply cannot repay the bankers. The Government, conscious that the farmers are laboring under an unbearable load, hopes to lighten this burden by a devalorization of the yen, but how this is to be accomplished has not been decided...
...onetime Princeton student, is president of the Rhode Island Senate. Last week James Simpson Jr., 27, son of Marshall Field's board chairman, was nominated for Congress in the Illinois Republican primaries (see n. 19). Joseph Clark Baldwin III. 35, Harvard 1920, New York Alderman from the 15th ("Silk Stocking") District, constitutes a unique minority on the Tammany Board. With Lawyer Coudert (see above) and Assemblyman Abbot Low Moffat, 31, Harvard 1923, he leads the younger element in the State Republican Party. A new, popular member of the U. S. House of Representatives is Howard Malcolm ("Mac") Baldrige...