New YorkerestEssential reads from every New Yorker issue

August 3, 1935

The New Yorker cover for August 3, 1935

Featured Pick

a reporter at large

"Reporter at Large"

Morris Markey

Paramount Publix went into receivership on January 26, 1933. Not long before this, its issued securities had a market value of $200,000,000. Lawyers …