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Last spring George Graham Rice arrived in Manhattan, suave, paunchy and in his usual high spirits. On leaving jail he had taken a pauper's oath but reporters found him in a swank 16-room apartment. To a list of 200 names picked at random from among his Idaho Copper stockholders, he sent greetings and asked them if they were "meeting the challenge" of the New Deal. The response to this "feeler" was good...
...policeman with the loudest voice at the Show. Two girls on a turntable spent their hours and days climbing in & out of a Chrysler. Packard boasted the "Queen of a Century of Progress," who would on request weigh your signature. A couple in evening dress against a backdrop of swank estates set the stage for Pierce-Arrow...
...Edward Bruce is more notable as a landscape and mural artist than as a second-string New Dealer. While in Lon don he gave a one-man show at the swank Leicester Galleries which attracted more attention than the dreamy goings-on of the Conference in the Geological Museum (TIME, June 19). Last week Artist Bruce found himself in the happy position of being able to do something for other artists less well off than himself. When the scrabble for Civil Works Ad ministration money started in Washington Mr. Bruce went to President Roosevelt with the suggestion that some...
...mail subsidy. All went well until last year when they rowed with the Ludingtons, who bought them out. The line was absorbed by a competitor. Paul Collins and Amelia Earhart Putnam opened a new line in New England (TIME, Aug. 21). Gene Vidal met Elliott Roosevelt at the swank River Club in Manhattan, talked aviation with him. One day last January he, Elliott, Mrs. Roosevelt and Louis McHenry Howe flew to Warm Springs. Gene Vidal spent three days there, informally expounding his views on aviation to the President-Elect. If Mr. Roosevelt was not impressed by his guest...
...given a chance, they could push whiskey into a respectable place high in big business circles. Seton Porter and his associates were keenly aware of their social responsibilities. For his own company, as No. i whiskey man, he cherished the hope that it might some day have the swank of Britain's DCL. Competition would be terrific and rum was a Demon but all he wanted was a fair opportunity to saw the horns off his beast...