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...from unemployed last week was the prince of U. S. bar-makers: James ("Jimmy") Mont, 29, a slim, Manhattanized Turk. He was an unsuccessful interior decorator until in June, 1932, he got the idea of using fancy bars as a wedge to redecorate people's apartments. He would sell a bar that looked fine in his Modern Salon Co.'s Manhattan showroom but looked like a fair carrousel in the customer's apartment. Then Mont would redecorate the room to match the bar, the whole apartment to match the room. He made more ornate bars, got bigger...
...nonman. Confusion, timidly. ("See the" )whispers("nomads")Turkess . . . (stolid hugely faces poke from rags & bags: sullen squat drearily scratching lost ghosts. Men. Grunt nonmen. Their pyramid-of fear, surfaced with asquirm naked babies-does not move. None have any shoes but some are wearing instead baskets, i is smoking). Turk drops coinlesses, a machine spews quai-tickets. Now (baggageladen 2)3 comrades, through despair timidly through confusion through perhaps wearily and through (you cannot turn the wheels of) irrevocable un, move . . . beneath curving steel-and-glass nonroof now finding (asleep, forever-fully)tattered train...
...soiree, Dr. Prince realized that he was stumped, could not talk to the Albanian Minister in Albanian. Casually they chatted in Turkish. Later the Albanian Minister said with difficulty to a U. S. matron in Albanian English: "What a strange you Americans are! What a silly! You hire a Turk to be your Minister to Jugoslavia! To me it is a sorry but I could not understand Americans...
Westerners, whose religious wars lie centuries behind them, could not easily understand how Turks felt last week. Kemal's ventilation had swept away the Turk's fez, his extra wives, his remaining wife's veil, and now his church service. Last week, for the first time in history, Turks of Istanbul, where the reform was inaugurated, understood what the priests were saying. But they found it hard to believe it was the same thing as the Arabic gibberish that had had 13 centuries of mumbo-jumbo behind...
Under a new income tax law signed by the President, "Turkish wage earners become the most heavily taxed in the world." according to Istanbul papers. Every Turk, no matter how minute his income, must pay at least 30% to the State. Richest Turks will get off easier than richest Englishmen who are taxed out of half their income. In Turkey, under the new law. "incomes over $300 per month shall be taxed...