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...mind as the nursery's headquarters. Then & there Mrs. Walrath's listeners-U. S. Gypsum's Sewell Lee Avery, Pure Oil's Henry Dawes (brother), Franklin MacVeagh's Rollin H. Keyes (since deceased), Carson Pirie Scott's Frederick Hossack Scott, Butler Bros.' Frank H. Cunningham-gave the necessary $1,000 each...
...five Gimbels who manage Gimbel Bros. Inc. (department stores) are to be thought of as a basketball team, beefy President Bernard F. Gimbel, biggest stockholder, would be captain and centre. The team's "running" forward and its nimblest basket-shooter would be Cousin Richard, 36, vice president. A Phi Beta Kappa at Yale he advertised TUTORING CLASSES DE LUXE, guaranteeing that any student who attended his five-hour lectures would pass a given course. His students paid $20 a head, lay on divans in his rooms, consumed champagne, soda pop, candies, ice cream, cigars. Richard Gimbel carried his money...
...Richard summarily dismissed Mr. Kaufmann for "disloyalty and insubordination." Furious, President Bernard, on whose Manhattan office wall hangs the motto: "To be Right is Desirable, To Seem Right is Essential," seized pen, dispatched to Cousin Richard a telegram: "YOU ARE HEREBY SUSPENDED AS AN OFFICER AND EMPLOYE OF GIMBEL BROS. INC. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO FORTHWITH LEAVE THE STORE. YOUR AUTHORITY TO ISSUE ANY ORDERS OR IN ANY WAY ACT FOR THE COMPANY IS HEREBY WITHDRAWN. YOUR UNAUTHORIZED ACTION . . . CONCERNING MR. KAUFMANN AT A TIME WHEN YOU KNEW DIRECTORS WERE CON- TEMPLATING NOT TO RE-ELECT YOU TO OFFICE COMPELS...
...cable from London last week made Chicagoans belatedly aware of a new work of art right in their midst. Newshawks shouldered their cameras and hurried out to the Glencoe home of James M. R. Glaser of Rosenbaum Bros, (grain brokers).* In his private bar was a large mural panel entitled The History of Bootlegging. In vaguely Riveraesque manner it showed the familiar figure of Al Capone with a blowsy blonde on the arm of his chair, five scowling henchmen, machine gunners, trucks, planes, motor boats, and the silhouetted figures of couples dancing in a speakeasy (see cut). It had been...
...confused with Chicago's lately deflated Rosenbaum Grain Corp. (TIME, May 6), founded last century by a brother who broke away from Rosenbaum Bros...