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...dealer, bald Edouard Jonas, Conseiller du Commerce Exterieur de la France, Expert Conseil du Gouverne-ment, has had a brilliant career. An expert in the graceful decadence of the 18th Century, he owns a gallery on the smartest corner in Paris, Place Vendome & Rue Castiglione. He has been appointed director of the Government's new Cognacq-Jay Museum of 18th Century paintings and antiques.* He married the former wife of Cigar Store Tycoon David Schulte, and until six months ago he operated a large and very elaborate shop in New York...
...name it is now the head office. All but one of its executive personnel (who have no titles) are Denver men, as are most of the branch office managers. Its research department is famed for Statistician John Walker Barriger III, one of Wall Street's smartest railroad analysts. All of Calvin Bullock's business is wholesale except in Denver where it still deals directly with old retail customers. Of its investment trusts, both fixed and management type, Calvin Bullock has sold more than...
...flair for writing about the family, much of what he had to say being incorporated in a book on the Roeblings published two years ago by the University Press of Princeton, Hamilton Schuyler, author. His brother, Ferdinand, was never president of the Roebling Co., but treasurer, and was the smartest of all in a business way, although he had his full share of weaknesses, one of which was to quarrel with me frequently. However, in the 37 years I have been at the newspaper bench nearly everybody in Trenton has quarrelled with me at some time. As to Ferdinand...
...cynical though witty brain behind these policies is constantly revealed by General von Schleicher at socialite Berlin gatherings, causes smartest, richest hostesses to "simply adore the dear general!" Characteristic von Schleicher mots...
Changchun Tomahawking. Dining heavily in the Yueh Hai Chung, Changchun's best Chinese hotel, and guarded by Japanese police, sat wealthy Li Yih-sun, smartest political wire-puller in Manchukuo. famed for pulling Heilungkiang Province out from under Governor Chen Shieh-yuan who was ''kicked upstairs" to the rank of Privy Councilor...