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...help in making up its mind. For seven months the most active lobby since the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff bill had buzzed about Capitol corridors. Chief Lobbyist Ellsworth Bunker, vice president & treasurer of the National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey, gave dinner parties for Congressmen in his swank 23rd Street home. Economist-Lobbyist John E. Dalton, ex-chief of sugar for AAA, wrote carefully prepared treatises and reference books demonstrating the need for protecting U. S. refiners and refinery workers (of whom there are only 16,000). Ex-Senator-Lobbyist Hubert D. Stephens of Mississippi and ex-Congressman-Lobbyist...
Since their marriage the Duke & Duchess of Windsor have bathed and lolled on beaches, put in an appearance at the Salzburg Festival, made a tour of swank night-spots-all the fun of a carefree honeymoon...
...Soviet Government negotiated a deal with the versatile Hammers. They were forbidden to export their rubles, but they might buy with their profits antique furniture, jewels, paintings, etc. There soon appeared in Manhattan a swank emporium known as the Hammer Galleries, its showcases filled with Sevres vases, jeweled Easter eggs, enameled cups and other bourgeois impedimenta of Tsarist nobility. Knowing the political sympathies of its likeliest customer, the Hammer Galleries plasters its walls with double eagles and other imperial symbols...
...street the name Cord means a low-slung automobile, rare and swank, which is entirely too expensive for him to own. To that class which can afford the car, the name means a profane, bespectacled young capitalist whose life has been a garage mechanic's dream. Errett Lobban Cord got his start in Los Angeles building "racing" bodies for junked Fords. He drove in dirt track races in Tacoma. He worked in a garage. In his early 20s he became a flash automobile salesman for the old Moon agency in Chicago. In 1924 he walked into the subdued Auburn...
...enter school, got through eight grades in a year. He joined the Canadian Royal Fusiliers, saw service in the Near East, returned to the U. S. to study at the University of Pennsylvania, become an Episcopal minister. A radical, David Colony was assigned to teach Latin at swank Episcopal Academy and assist in a church at Rosemont, both on the Main Line and both cool to his notions. Transferred to more congenial, lower-class parishes in Philadelphia suburbs. Rector Colony established a barter system for the unemployed, a "school of the poor for the poor" which was to be supported...