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...take short catnaps. When he takes over his new office he will be no stranger to Washington. He maintains a residence there, has gone there whenever his duties would permit. In Washington he is not active socially but he likes to go for drink and chit-chat to the swank Army & Navy Club or Chevy Chase Country Club. Like Admiral Standley and many another naval officer he has a son, Lieut. William Harrington Leahy, in the ranks below...
...tariff on cars, with the idea that only after this was done could they win reciprocal tariff cuts abroad and break heavily into European markets. Today, with the U. S. tariff on imported cars down to a trifling 10%, they are being bought for fun and swank in commercially negligible quantities. U. S. makers watch foreign imports in a mood of amused tolerance far different from that of automobile men overseas. In the United Kingdom the industry is so scared of U. S. and even Canadian competition that it buys full-page ads to fight foreign cars as such. Some...
...usual cut & dried evidence from employes of the swank Hotel de Paris at Bray on the Thames near Maidenhead was then mechanicaly recited by members of its staff. They said they had brought morning tea to Mr. Simpson and a woman who was not Mrs. Simpson but was with him in a double bed. There must be no provable collusion in an English divorce case and judges usually demand to hear in court the name of the "other woman" or corespondent. This had not been mentioned when Mrs. Simpson's lawyer asked the Court to grant the decree nisi...
...portfolio of any tycoon who collects etchings will almost certainly be found plates by one or more of the great Scottish trio who are currently the highest priced print-makers in the world: Muirhead Bone, David Young Cameron, James McBey. In Manhattan last week the swank art firm of Arthur H. Harlow & Co. celebrated its 25th anniversary with a hand-picked show of dry points and water colors by round-faced, affable Muirhead Bone, 60. It was no place for the impecunious. The prints ranged from $72 to $1,500, the water colors from $85 to more than $350 apiece...
Died. Rev. William Hartley Carnegie, 76, rector of London's swank St. Margaret's Church, since 1913 Canon of Westminster; in London. In 1916 he married the widow of Statesman Joseph Chamberlain, thus became the stepfather of Statesmen Neville and Sir Austen Chamberlain...