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...Budget revelations. Last year he said: "Perhaps I may liken this budget to the uncertain glories of an April Day." This year if he had drawn on the calendar for his opening banter he would have had to choose the month of November, so he changed his tack, orated: "It has been suggested that I tax bachelors, bicycles, cats, dogs, debutantes, fiction, loudspeakers and other things. . . . None of these things is of any use to me." His audience tittered nervously, and shrewd Neville Chamberlain followed up with the handsome announcement that he proposed to abolish the "trousers...
...offers its credentials for admission to the thin company of cinema immortals. It is during the We're Here's race to Gloucester that the interwoven stories come to their climax. After a night of reckless seamanship, both ships are standing clear, close-hauled on the port tack, all sails set and drawing, with the We're Here to the windward and astern of Jenny Cushman. Finding herself being overhauled, the Jenny Cushman craftily comes about, pointing across the We're Here's bows. By sea law, the ship on the starboard tack having...
...last week, SEC had got to the point in its Washington hearing of parading priests, housewives, and the manager of Harvard's Fly Club, all Hutton customers, to tell how they had made and lost money in Tack. Fly Clubber James Corcoran dealt from Boston with W. E. Hutton II, wiring him on one occasion: "I am sitting on 700 tacks. Where do I get off?" Partner Hutton got him off 600 Tacks at a profit of $2,400. The other customers questioned were those of Jerry McCarthy, a customers' man in Hutton's Detroit office...
Young Bill Hutton was also in the Detroit office but the powerhouse there was Jerry McCarthy, whose clientele included a good representation in the Detroit Tigers. Last month SEC summoned Manager Mickey Cochrane to describe how he bought 1,000 shares of Tack, but the famed catcher had evidently found the game too fast to follow. Asked where he had been in November 1935, he said he thought he had been in Wyoming but that might have been in October. "I travel around so much I don't know where I am half the time," he apologized...
Disillusioned also was Del Baker, the Tigers' coach, who last week testified that Jerry McCarthy had bought 400 shares of Tack for a discretionary Baker account at $25 per share. But while the customers' man sold his sisters' Tack holdings at a profit, he failed to do as much for Del Baker. Through friends of Mickey Cochrane, Jerry McCarthy got another Tack customer in the person of a Mrs. Kathryn Smith, who bought 100 shares at $17.75 per share, saw it go up, finally got rid of it at $16.50 because she "didn't want...