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...celebrated birds are concerned with poultry shows. Among the 800 exhibitors were Mr. & Mrs. John D. Hertz of Chicago who showed a pen of Buff Orpingtons valued at $100,000. Three Havemeyer brothers, of whom one, T. A. Havemeyer, was president of the Show, took prizes hither and yon. William Fairfield Whiting, paper manufacturer of Holyoke, Mass., who came to fame by succeeding Herbert Hoover for a while as Secretary of Commerce (September 1928 to March 1929), dropped in. Harry F. Allen, brother to Governor Frank Allen of Massachusetts, took prizes with his Silver King pigeons...
...first U. S. part, given her by Director Harrison Grey ("Mr. Minnie Maddern") Fiske was that of a Negro maid in Mrs. Boltay's Daughters. She acted hither and yon until Arthur Richman's sweetish comedy Not So Long Ago remained on Broadway for two seasons. Two greater successes followed: Liliom, The Swan...
...happened lately on the New York Stock Exchange it has become more or less of a habit to account for it airily by saying: "That's Chicago buying." Many an offerer of this glib information when asked what he means by Chicago, answers: "Oh, Arthur Cutten and the rest?yon know." Two announcements from Chicago last fortnight illustrated in part of whom "the rest" consist. One was the announcement of a new investment corporation ? Manhattan-Dearborn Corp. The other news was sale of new stock by Chicago Investors' Corp. The directorates of these new invest ment trusts each represent...
...think one way or another about the signature attached to some contributed verses he printed in early April, entitled "To a wife about to start on a shopping tour." The last stanza read: So when you dare declare to me You will not buy a hat Today-yon lie and know you lie!-I will not credit that! The signature was: "WILFRED J. FUNK...
...Albany was not calm. By the pier of the Albany Yacht Club, the river's grey-green surface had been transformed into dirty, bubbly whipped cream. A fleet of 133 little launches, each with an outboard motor attached, was milling about, racing its engines, darting hither and yon like a swarm of noisy water beetles. Finally Commodore William B. Eldridge appeared on the balcony of the Yacht Club building. The boats lined up under the railroad bridge. The Commodore fired a pistol. With a shrill spattering sound the boats streaked down the Hudson. As each passed the balcony...