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...already "liquidated" the only two dangerous Russians) and dictated his terms. When they understood his amazing proposition they scurried to sign. So would you have done. Economists may laugh at Tycoon Rand's slick scheme, but the plain man will admit it makes a good Oppenheim yarn. The Author. Edward Phillips Oppenheim, 64, tycoonish-looking himself, writes stories "because, if I left them on my brain, where they are endlessly effervescing, I would be subject to a sort of mental in digestion." He published his first story at 18, his first novel at 20. He never plots...
Under the old Chinese tariff there were five separate bureaus for collecting taxes on wine & loose tobacco, rolled tobacco, stamp, yarn, kerosene (China, unmotorized. uses far more kerosene than gasoline). The new Soong tariff may irk foreign exporters by raising all the rates, but it will vastly expedite shipments by reducing these five tax bureaus...
...Chase National Bank; Ray Morris of Brown Brothers & Co., both of whom were previously directors, and Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone & Co. Mr. Pierce will become board chairman, First Vice President Moses Pendleton will remain in his same position as general manager. Mr. Pendleton has always made the important yarn division turn in a profit, has skillfully directed wool buying, knows much about manufacturing...
...ground. Then one horse got up and his man mounted him. It was Alligator and Plumb. Bally Yarn was second. Only other finisher among the 17 starters was Austin H. Niblack's Maitland...
Reporter Karl Kingsley Kitchen, who digs up many a good yarn for the New York Sun, last week told "The True Story of the Origin of a Famous Song...