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...Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, was haled into Manhattan City Court by his divorced wife, who demanded payment of $730 back alimony. Pleaded Farley: "I am overdrawn $200 at the Chase National Bank. ... I have only $20 in my pockets, and all the property I have is a pearl stickpin, a watch and a cheap pair of cuff links. I am unemployed...
...royalty would be her devoted fans. Queen Mary gasped when she saw Sonja in 1928, deplored the fact that she herself could not figure skate. Edward VIII has paid her many a kingly compliment. In 1934 ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany gave her his diamond stickpin crowned with the Hohenzollern crest. Her own sovereign, King Haakon VII of Norway, sends her a telegram or cable before every foreign appearance. And Reichsführer Adolf Hitler this winter invited Sonja and her parents to his Munich abode, gave her a silver-framed picture of himself, talked all evening...
Dean of Manhattan's bookmakers, "Long Tom" Shaw, 6 ft. 3, grey-haired, with a diamond stickpin in his tie, a grey felt hat over his shrewd Irish face, has been taking bets at New York tracks since 1906. At Belmont Park and other New York tracks his stool is No. i in the. line of bookmakers in the betting shed. The odds chalked on his slate are highly respected by his confreres. A onetime New Orleans bicycle-racing champion, Tom Shaw, now 60, rides in an open Rolls Royce...
...Thorp had once registered as a Republican while at Amherst, he dropped his shears and paste, scuttled back to Mississippi with the news that Senator Stephens was about to give a $9,000 job to a "damn Yankee" Republican. Pulling on his red campaign necktie, adjusting his diamond stickpin and purchasing the oldest and most dilapidated car he could find, Theodore Bilbo began to stump the State for Senator Stephens...
...world?the four-out-of-seven races for the America's Cup. The owner of the British challenger. Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, arrived in Manhattan last week, a few days ahead of his Endeavour which was being towed across the Atlantic by his Diesel yacht. With a stickpin burgee of the Royal Yacht Squadron in his necktie and a briar pipe in his mouth. Owner Sopwith said what he thought about the races and Endeavour...