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Swart, pompous little Representative Hook housed himself, wife & daughters in Washington's swank, expensive Westchester Apartments last winter. Cried he, when the Hook family's extraordinary financial relations with the Government were publicized last week: "I'm not a bit ashamed! I'd rather have them that way, drawing honest relief from the Government, than become thieves. I have sup ported them all my life and I do not intend to do it again while other people are receiving relief...
...daring British privateer named Brooke forced the Sultan of Brunei to make him Raja of the vast East Indian district called Sarawak. Today his descendant is swank, hard Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, who as The White Raja of Sarawak rules 500,000 natives from his palace at Kuching (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934). Romantic Sarawak is "independent under the protection of the British Crown." Last month in Sarawak a cable from the Raja's 22-year-old Daughter Eliza asked if she could marry London's loudest-blowing hot jazz conductor, Harry...
...sped an automobile bearing agents of the U. S. Senate. Whr-r-r-o-r! Out of Connecticut Avenue whizzed an automobile bearing Washington police officers. Speed laws were ignored while pedestrians leaped for their lives. One- two-three, the automobiles screeched to a halt in front of the swank Shoreham Hotel. Their occupants piled out, raced up the steps. Prize of the chase was big black headlines for either Chairman O'Connor of the House Lobby Investigating Committee or Chairman Black of the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee, depending on which one's agents first thrust a subpoena...
...captions and it was the work of months to sort into subjects and series the 1,676 pictures that Joseph Boggs Beale hoped one day to see published. Some weeks Artist Beale, in humorous vein, would confect such a series as The First Auto (see cut), in which a swank couple in duster and goggles buy a two-cylinder Pope-Hartford, take to the open road, encounter a thunderstorm, suffer a breakdown (which they attempt to mend with a gimlet and a hatchet), and finally drive on into a sentimental rainbow. More rough & tumble were Beale's ideas...
Page & Shaw did not remain obscure for long. Styling itself "the only international candy company," it opened branches in England, France and Canada, a chain of swank stores from Manhattan to San Francisco. By 1924 its sales reached a peak of 2,200,000 lb. per year. Then troubles came to Page & Shaw. Sales slumped, cash dwindled. Control had fallen into the hands of a Boston lawyer named Otis Emerson Dunham. Promoter Dunham shocked the Boston Better Business Bureau by giving away one share of common stock with every $2 worth of candy. In 1930 Promoter Dunham and two stockbrokers...