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Retired. George H. Van Fleet, 68, closest business associate of the late Warren Gamaliel Harding, editor of the Marion Star during Harding's terms as Senator and President. The Star is now owned by Ohio's Brush-Moore Newspapers...
Matthew Chauncey Brush, president of American International Corp., famed bear and first witness called by the committee after Mr. Whitney. American Brush Co., headed by G. S. Brush, brother of Matthew. Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith, known in Wall Street as "No. 1 bear." W. E. Button &; Co., where Smith makes his office. Ludwig Bendix, no relation to Vincent. Miss M. A. Boyle, who was identified as an associate of Bernard Mannes Baruch. financier and Democrat, but denied she held the account for him. George F. Breen, famed as a "market maker." Harry Content ("most cold-blooded...
Four years ago Marshal Wu went into the bleak, howling wilderness of Tibet (TIME, April, 16, 1928). There in a monastery perched on a mountain crag he composed a tome of Buddhist poems, painting each character daintily with his artful brush. This scholarly job done and his Fatherland being still stricken by famine, pestilence and war, sedate Scholar Wu buckled on again the sword of a Marshal, returned from lonely Tibet to overcrowded China and today looms potently upon the scene. Equally to President Chiang Kai-shek of China and to Marshal Wu was addressed last week a most amazing...
...have said that I do not belive that under existing circumstances business is a profession; I do not believe that the leaders of American business have as a class a professional feeling toward their activities. What is a profession? I brush aside at once journalists, trained nurses, dancing masters, equestrians, and chiropodists, who speak of themselves as professional. One hears of professional baseball players and professional football players, but the word 'professional' has no proper significance in any such connection. There are paid football players and unpaid football players. There are paid baseball players and unpaid baseball players; but, whether...
Long before Richelieu wound his armies through the Valtelline or Champaigne thrashed his first brush across a canvass an equally famous man cast his shadow on the history of England. Becket was a soldier who became the greatest archbishop of his time and faced the boldest king that England knew. And for all this he died, slain in his own Cathedral. But one doesn't really know Becket until he has left his histories and turned to another of the arts. A poet has left behind a picture of him as clear and brilliant as the painter's Richelieu. Tennyson...