Abstract

Swindle Sheet

Half of the people are not paying at their expensive meals, at the Diner's Club. Their benefactor is neither Sherman Billings-Fey, Louis nor Armand. Forty-eight per cent of their check is being picked up by the firm which employs them or wants some business from them; the U.S. Treasury contributes the remainder in the form of uncollected corporate taxes. The biggest spenders these days--according to a survey, made last June by the Diners' Club, a six year-old credit organization which enables corporation accountants to keep a penny-by-penny check on entertainments endured in the line of duty--are, in this order: TV profession advertisements, public-relations practitioners, manufacturers' representatives, movie men, wholesalers' representatives, advertising executives, theatrical booking agents, brokers and literary agents.