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...Jackson Bros., Boesel & Co., members of the New York Stock Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade, announced that its Chicago, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Omaha and St. Joseph, Mo. offices had been acquired by Winthrop, Mitchell & Co. of Manhattan. Month ago Arthur S. Jackson, senior partner of Jackson Bros., Boesel, who managed their Chicago office's grain commission business (largest in the U. S.), died in Manhattan. Thus Jackson Bros., Boesel plans to become simply a Manhattan brokerage firm, passed on the title of biggest grain broker to Winthrop, Mitchell...
...established since 1843, and have been doing one of the largest medicinal spirit businesses in the East all during Prohibition. Also, their analytical laboratory has lent their help and aid in analyzing spirits from the toxicological standpoint. Bendiner & Schlesinger, Inc. have secured the much sought after agency of Berry Bros, of London, who have been established since the XVII century as wine merchants, and at the present time are acting as wine merchants to the royal household of England. They produce such well known brands as "Cutty Sark" and "St. James's Blend" Scotch Whiskies, and are famous...
When Captain John Ayers released the movie rights of his book to the Warner Bros. Inc., he could have had very little notion of the Hollywood system. It is hard to believe that he is satisfied. The movie, true enough, is harmless and occasionally entertaining. But the possibilities of such a work proved a little too much for those who sit in back rooms and pound out superlatives. "The Police are Liars," "The Police are Fakers," they assure us. Snappy mottos, these, emblazoned in three foot red capitals, snappy mottos to garner quarters and to ornament...
...preservation of at least a portion of his educative intent, Captain Ayers must therefore thank Captain Stone. The salvage, however, is small; the Warner Bros. have seen to that. What might have been a dull and instructive film is muddied with a useless love interest; what might have been a mediocre romance is muddied with police records. As usual, when it is caught between two fires, Hollywood has jumped into both...
Colleagues, including Yale's reclusive, ape-observing Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes, tried to placate Professor Kornhauser. Intruded Psychological Corp.'s Dr. Henry Charles Link, who has worked for Winchester Repeating Arms Co., U. S. Rubber Co., Lord & Taylor and Gimbel Bros.: "We first try to find out what the consumer wants and then give it to him." Concluded Professor Harold Ernest Burtt of Ohio State University: "When two brands of a certain product are equally good, I think we are justified in taking a fee for telling the sponsors of one of the two how to sell...