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...doubled it many times in Brazilian, Spanish and Mexican companies from which ] claim to have derived a total profit of one and a quarter billion Belgian francs ($35,000,000). My most famous attempted 'deal' was an offer to loan $100,000,000 to Belgium and France wherewith to stabilize their currencies. This fell through when it was discovered that I demanded personal control of the state finance of both countries during the stabilization period...
...training, are perfunctorily instructed by an uma.† Both geisha and joro girls are purchased in their ^eens from impoverished parents, about $500 being the lowest price deemed appropriate for a girl of geisha calibre. The geisha then technically rents an apartment from her purchaser, who advances her credit wherewith to keep up her establishment. By this subterfuge, the geisha-house owners remain legally mere landlords. Actually they hold the geisha girls who are in their debt as security until they earn enough to pay off the credits extended them. Though in many cases the geisha die before they...
Loose Ankles. Stale stuff from older plays, peppery wit, audacious hashing-and Playwright Janney concocts a diverting theatrical creature. A last testament commanding marriage stirs Ann Harper to rebellion. She will hire a gigolo* wherewith to shock this tyrannical family of hers. The scheme seems harmless enough. But when a young, amateurish gigolo appears and Ann plays something by Tschaikoysky on the piano, virulent sentimentality sets in, and the condition of the play becomes critical. Numerous first-nighters reached for their hats. In the nick of time, the scene shifts back to the private life of the four gigolos...
...little dancing bubbles wherewith the Liquid Carbonic Co. tickles the palates of a vast public of U. S. soda-drinkers, there arises something besides carbon dioxide gas. Sparkling behind these bubbles is a personality, the personality of handsome, dark-haired Bertha Baur, née Duppler, who last week sold her Liquid Carbonic holdings for $4,000,000. She was a typist on LaSalle Street, when she met and married Jacob Baur, Chicago business man, in 1906. Carbonic bubbles had already served Jacob Baur well; Bertha Baur was a wealthy widow in 1912. She took up her husband...
Actually one Domingo Masachs Torrent, 34, Communist, day laborer, had sharpened a sleek knife wherewith to welcome Primo de Rivera...