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...bowed unsteadily in all directions and uttered through his nose a haughty condescending sound-something halfway between 'I am very pleased' and 'Please be seated'-and immediately began to talk such inexplicable rubbish about reconnoitring the village, the old Sabakin, the swindling representative, the bloody Tsar Nicholas, Isabella and other things, that the women were absolutely tongue-tied with fright and respect, and the driver exclaimed in a drunken voice, 'Gee up,' and clapped his arms across his chest with sheer delight...
Enigmatic Pincus Rutenberg is an ex-Russian, an ex-soldier of the late Tsar Nicholas II, and the ex-Chief of Police of the Kerensky ex-Government of Russia. When he sought refuge in London, such statesmen as the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill praised him for having done his policeful best in Moscow to catch and hang Lenin and Trotsky. Soon a syndicate of British and Zionist capitalists sent him out to found the Palestine Electric Corp. (TIME, March 4). Today he is the Samuel Insull (see p. 52) of the Near East. Last week he dramatically intervened...
...corner of Wall and Broad Streets than his own Chicago. Whether or not he, "biggest bull," had been engaged in a month-long duel with Jesse Livermore, famed bear, was not a matter of public knowledge. No one could quite believe that Mr. Livermore was, in storybook fashion, tsar of a band of bears which had fanatically obeyed his orders for two months. But certain it seemed that a colossal effort to reduce the price of stocks had had masterful direction, beginning with the selling of U. S. securities by the French Government and other European investors weeks...
...Manhattan last week sped Art Collector Edouard Jonas with $1,250,000 worth of paintings and antiques to swell Manhattan's winter exhibitions. Included were Franz Hals' Portrait of a Woman; furniture used by Louis XIV; canvases painted by Ivan F. Choultse, court painter to the late Tsar Nicholas II. Court Painter Choultse will attend the showing of his work next month...
...indefinite program will probably include Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, Rubinstein's Demon and Rimsky-Korsakov's Bride of the Tsar. The Manhattan engagement ends Dec. 28 whereupon a tour will be taken through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England and into Canada...