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...White House a swarm of bankers, financiers, businessmen, industrialists, railroaders, labor leaders, farm spokesmen. In the privacy of his study, one by one, he asked them what he should do in the economic emergency. Almost to a man his visitors told him to sit tight, keep smiling, let the tempest blow itself out. For nearly two years he followed their advice...
...George Barbour; that Lady Whyte, at dinner, had worn a red evening dress. Sir Frederick's ideas on England's future or on any other world problem remained sacred to 160 members of the local English-Speaking Union, whose guest he was. Thence arose a teapot-tempest between the Cincinnati Press and Cincinnati socialites...
Fine Arts--"Tempest." Emil Janings...
...YORK TEMPEST-Manuel Komroff-Coward-McCann. On April 12, 1836, Manhattan had something to talk about. Pretty Courtesan Ellen Jewett was found strangled in her room. Circumstantial evidence glared at one Robinson, young man-about-town. Editor James Gordon Bennett himself covered the story for his New York Herald. Author Komroff, changing the names of his protagonists to Oliver Benson and Jane Holden, follows closely the history of the case, but takes it further, deeper than Editor Bennett did. Jane, like many a storybook harlot, was pathological only in having a heart of gold. She gave Benson her true love...
...YORK TEMPEST-Manuel Komroff-Coward-McCann ($2.50). THE RIPENING-Colette-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). HOT WATER-P. G. Vodehouse- Doubleday, Dor an ($2). WHEN THE GANGS COME TO LON- DON-Edgar WTallace-Crime Club ($2). Another posthumous Parthian shot from the late great detectifictioneer. THE LIFE OF GEORGE ELIOT-Emi- lie and Georges Romieu-Dutton ($3-75)-Rodomontadinous French biography of one Mary Ann Evans, writer...