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...BOOOOO!" went a crowd of about 300 assorted Chinese and Communists. Patrolman John Ello took into custody one Lin Naphin, 32, who was clutching a loaded pistol in his overcoat pocket. Smiling politely, Statesman Matsuoka was whisked from the waterfront to the echoing calm of Fifth. Avenue's swank (but bankrupt) Hotel Pierre. There he sat down under a portrait of China's late great Li Hung-chang and awaited the Press...
...plumbing installed: $3,500. It is a product of American Homes, Inc. of New York which now offers a "line" of four prefabricated models costing up to $7,200. Architect is lean, towering Robert W. McLaughlin Jr. of the New York firm of Holden, McLaughlin & Associates. Designer of swank country homes for the well-to-do, Architect McLaughlin has turned enthusiastically to prefabrication as a solution not only of the U. S. housing problem but of the U. S. architect's employment problem...
...horses in the U. S. to Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, his son by Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Sonny Whitney, almost as horsy as his Cousin Jock, has extended his family's business interests by becoming an active director of Pan American Airways. Last autumn he tried to become swank Long Island's Congressman on the Democratic ticket, but was easily beaten by the experienced socialite incumbent, big Robert L. Bacon. Since he watched his Equipoise come from behind in the mud to win the Pimlico Futurity of 1930, Cousin Sonny's interest in keeping up his father...
...became embroiled in any of Mr. Mitchell's stock selling schemes. He is known as a banker of the old type-which is precisely what National City needed to regain public approval. Manhattan knows little of him socially. He spends all his time at his big estate in swank Greenwich, Conn., rides horseback daily before breakfast. He is a trustee of Smith College, the Berkshire School, Sarah Lawrence College and an Overseer of Harvard College...
Four days before the annual report of Atlas Corp. was released for publication this week. President Floyd Bostwick Odium invited most of Manhattan's financial newshawks to the swank Luncheon Club at No. 40 Wall Street. It was, said Mr. Odium, the first time that a clear picture of Atlas' amazing Depression history had been presented...