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...returned his legal residence to his San Simeon estate. Though he issued no detailed explanation of his return to native soil, the inference was that California would now be less expensive for him and his heirs than New York. For Assessor Hollister he listed $1,366,300.25 in "solvent credits," bringing his total assessable properties in San Luis Obispo County to a modest...
...Bermuda and his daughter celebrated her fourth wedding anniversary without her husband at the Astors' big chateau in Newport, Francis Ormond French made formal application for a pick & shovel job with WPA. He explained that he was down to $15. The application was held up. Reason : he had solvent relatives. Result: he received and turned down an invitation to become a Manhattan professional escort, announced he would start work this week as a handyman at a golf driving range...
...Philip Morris was perturbed last year when at least 41 persons died from taking as medicine sulfanilamide that had been mixed with diethylene glycol as a solvent (TIME, Nov. 1). Medical research, accepted by the American Medical Association, indicates however that there is nothing poisonous about diethylene glycol when it is burned as it is in cigarets...
...case, Lawyer Mason said he had asked Stock Exchange Governor E. H. H. Simmons on February 16 for an immediate audit of Richard Whitney & Co. "I said to Mr. Simmons that I was very much concerned about Dick Whitney; that I did not know whether he was solvent or insolvent, but I felt there was very grave risk. . . . He asked me if I knew about the events of November. I said that I did. He asked me if I had talked to George Whitney about it. I said that I had. Then he mentioned the unfortunate episode of Greer...
Loss to C.I.O. of I.L.G.W.U., second largest of the original C.I.O. unions, will mean loss of one of the most progressive, most solvent, most ably led industrial unions in the country. Whether the garment workers remain independent or return to a gleeful A. F. of L. remains to be worked...