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...boys are at military school in the East) the Cords live in a fine home in Beverly Hills outside Los Angeles where he went to high school and ran a car-washing business. G. H. Q. of Cord Corp. is at No. 105 West Adams St., Chicago. In the swank Lake Shore Drive district Cord maintains a large apartment. When visiting Manhattan he lives expensively in a suite at the WaldorfAstoria. Over the U. S. sweeps the Kingdom of Cord: at Camden, his $15,000,000 New York Shipbuilding Corp.: in Kalamazoo, his $4,500,000 Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp...
Last month Chicago's swank Union League Club papered a private dining room with nearly 2,000 worthless bonds and stock certificates, called it the Million-dollar Room. Last week in Chicago a noisy rabble of 10,000 bondholders from 22 states marched down Michigan Boulevard tossing equally worthless bonds on the street, trampling them with vicious whoops. Led by Governor William Langer of North Dakota, they shouted, "We've been robbed." displayed banners reading: "WE HAVE BONDS, BUT NO BREAD." "DILLINGER AND CAPONE ARE AMATEURS." Thousands of spectators jampacked the sidewalks as the three-mile procession rolled...
Preceded by European legends of fabulous wealth and lavish living, a big black-haired Briton and a little, grey-haired German arrived in Manhattan last week to do business in frozen German credits. Lieut.-Colonel Francis Norris and Siegfried Wreszynski established headquarters at Manhattan's swank Savoy-Plaza Hotel. "We don't take all the business that comes to us," they declared to reporters. "Perhaps $5,000,000 would be too small. It is just as much trouble to handle $5,000,000 as $100,000,000." They had, they boasted, liquidated a total...
Critics who deplore the lack of U. S. "native" art had no reason this week to complain of the work of Sanford Ross who, at 27, was holding his third one-man show in Manhattan's swank Reinhardt Galleries. Born in Orange, N. J., Artist Ross by preference paints the jigsaw-tortured mansions which solid New Jersey citizens built and lived in during the last lush years of the 19th Century. Besides the New Jersey pictures, Artist Ross last week showed a series of swift state highways, a snarling pile of junk, several melancholy landscapes, a picture...
...Manhattan, the president of the Fifth Avenue Association, the Commissioner of Health, and the First Deputy Police Commissioner met with the Outdoor Cleanliness Association in the swank Park Avenue apartment of Mrs. Arthur B. Claflin. Straight from his beat to address them they summoned Mark O'Connell, street cleaner...