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...directorate - bank, railroad or whatever - he has only to drop a light hint. Jones-trained employes are skilled hint-interpreters; the men he puts in office are expert hint-takers. For such reasons, underneath the success-story fragrance that surrounds the saga of Jesse Jones, there is still a whiff of old rancors, the skeletons of unforgiven deals, the shadows of shadowy doings. But in Houston, men say: "Well, we'd rather have Houston the way it is today, with all of Jesse's sharp goings-on, than no Jesse and no Houston." Jesse Jones operates...
Aside from willingness to contribute, prime requisite for F. o. B. membership is to be "a fellow being with a bellow feeling" to enjoy windy punning and complex ritual. Payment of one peso initiation fee makes the joiner a Whiff (all non-joiners are Snuffs, ritualistically defined as "infinitely worse than a cross-eyed toad with athlete's foot"). A Whiff becomes a Puff when he pays his first month's levy. A Puff becomes a Gust when, after his entry, 1,000 planes have been shot down and he has paid in ten pesos. When...
...Crooner Bing Crosby imported expensive South American horses. Between Los Angeles and San Francisco, 200-odd stud farms sprang up, ranging from backyard paddocks like Clark Gable's to $1,000,000 ranches like Harry Warner's-where a mountainside was moved to give his pets a whiff of ocean air. California rebuilt its breeding business into a $40,000,000-a-year industry...
...tear-gas squad rushed to the Plaza, but was warned that one whiff might kill scores of the diseased mob. A messenger ran to fetch Minister of the Interior Miguel Culaciati, who was attending a funeral. At noon Minister Culaciati received an exhausted, coughing delegation, promised to look into the matter of the vaccine...
...first whiff of Brazil while on vacation from the Woolworth store he managed in Atlantic City. Back in the States, he continued to dream of Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay. He also had another reverie : a chain of low-price stores in Brazil. Woolworth, he knew, would never send him there; the chain had investigated South America as a market, rejected it. Jim threw up his 15-year job, arrived in Rio on Washington's birthday, 1929, with two partners...