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...Brooke. 21, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak (northwestern Borneo); and Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inch- cape, 45, son of the late Lord Inchcape, shipping tycoon, brother of the Hon. Elsie Mackay who was lost in an attempted transatlantic flight in 1928. (In 1840 Trader James Brooke, great-uncle of Sir Charles, helped the Sultan of Borneo's uncle put down a rebellion, got the Raj of Sarawak in return.) Married. Margaret Dawes. 24, daughter of Utilities Man Rufus Cutler Dawes, president of Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition; and one Beverly Jefferson...
Last week Board of Trade seats touched $7,000 (up $2,000) and the Board of Trade began again to feel as if springtime were the only pretty ring time. Trader Thomas Howell was seen several times upon the floor contrary to his custom. Arthur Cutten was reported active. Oldtime Trader Gardner B. Van Ness was home from Manhattan. Herbert J. Blum, long inactive, was reported once more functioning. Jesse Livermore was back in Chicago with his new wife and reported bullish on corn...
...depressions, the beginning of inflations are marked by rising commodity prices. Many a depressed trader began to take heart last week. It was fine that corn was strong because higher corn prices mean bigger farm income for more farmers than do higher wheat prices...
Readers who gobbled Jan Welzl's Thirty Years in the Golden North (TIME, May 23), with or without salt, should smack their lips over this anecdotal sequel. In the first book Welzl told how, from being a locksmith, sailor, tramp he became a trader, proprietor of a boat, chief judge of New Siberia. In The Quest for Polar Treasures he describes with the same unliterary candor tall tales of further gold and fur hunts...
Hangman's Whip (by Norman Reilly Raine & Frank Butler; William A. Brady Jr., producer). "The fear o' hell," wrote Bobby Burns, "is a hangman's whip." For 30 years, with whip and gun, Cockney Trader Prin (portly Montague Love, who muscles people around with his stomach) has put the fear o' hell into the natives living far up an African river. He has also broken most of the white assistants that have served under him for, as he says, "I ain't run this river plying tiddly-winks." But two of his helpers he does...