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...DODGE BROS...
...irony in Mr. Lewisohn's position, whether the grandsons had been excluded for social or for academic reasons. He came to this country from Germany as a lad of 16, in 1865. His brother Leonard was already here and the two built up a big mercantile business, Lewisohn Bros. In 1868 they began specializing in metals, particularly copper, and soon led in world markets. Leonard died in 1902. Adolph, now 77, is one of the world's greatest mining and industrial potentates...
Dodge. Dodge Bros, are keeping their production schedule below demand. "As of April 24 ... [3,300] dealers in the U. S. had on hand 26,921 new cars and trucks, against which they held 17,568 signed orders . . . the small surplus being reduced ... [a fortnight ago] 8,264 cars [shipped] and retail deliveries 9,566." (President E. G. Wilmer...
...White Dental Manufacturing Co. (now the world's largest concern of its field), and to the company's shareholding employes, came Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co. Mr. Dillon offered to buy them out, just as he offered and did buy out the Dodge Bros, family business and the National Cash Register Co. (the Pattersons). To the White people he tendered $5,000,000 plus the assumption of their $1,000,000 liabilities. They rejected them last week, 27,866 shares to 14,455, and their President Frank H. Taylor, who favored the transaction, resigned...
...Jeritza" mean anyone else? Did not every Frenchman, Italian, Spaniard, use the definite article "La" to refer to her, the supreme, the only Jeritza, pre-eminent soprano of four continents? And this name the 'Messrs. Cohen had usurped. They had put it, over the trade name of "Cohen Bros.," on two kinds of box. One kind contained some dismal cheroots affectionately known as "Little Cigarros." The other contained larger cheroots; and on this box the Cohen brothers made themselves further offensive by printing, in connection with the name, the "picture of a woman in fancy dress purporting to be that...