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...number of U. S. plutocrats climbs as quickly as a monkey up a stick, but to more purpose; for this number, together with statistics on import and export, chain store business, stock and bond markets, is an index to U. S. prosperity. In 1925 there were, judging by the taxes they paid to the U. S. Government, 207 men who possessed yearly incomes of more than $1,000,000. In 1926, judging by the taxes that were paid in 1927 and published last week, there were 228 men who possessed yearly incomes of more than $1,000,000. Incomes over...
...them if they enter stage work later but the poise and elocution that is taught to them is something that is often lacking in actors that have gone on the stage without any training of this sort," explained E. F. Albee, philanthropist and head of the Keith-Albee chain of vaudeville theatres, in an interview yesterday to the CRIMSON "My advice to students is to stick to their studies more, but not to let the play side of their college life be entirely neglected...
Commercial and investment banking attracted the largest number of students, drawing 61 men from the finishing class. Manufacturing came next, 26 graduates having chosen this field of industry in which to work. Chain and department stores were third in the list, with a total of 19 men selecting this form of occupation as their work. Teaching as a profession was fourth in popularity among the graduates, 12 men having accepted positions as instructors in the various Business Schools throughout the country. Ten students elected to enter some branch of the army and navy, nine have not been heard from since...
...type of self-made Italian business man. Sprung from an old but untitled Venetian family, he was obliged when a boy to earn his living by manual labor. Came an opening in the Levantine shipping trade, and he plunged into a career during which he built up a great chain of trading establishments between Italy and the Near East. Rich, potent, he turned from business to devote himself brilliantly to affairs of state. Premier Giolitti entrusted to him the negotiation of the peace treaty which followed the Italo-Turkish War in Tripoli (1911-12). Later his successful governorship of Misurata...
Department Store. In Tennessee and Kentucky the Reynolds chain of department stores and the Crawford-Gatlin chain together own 16 stores. Last week they merged...