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Pulling together 43 manufacturing and transport companies and a large investment concern into a cohesive, economical whole to the satisfaction of all concerned - bankers, stockholders, experts, personnel - was a superhuman task for any man to accomplish in one year, in a new industry. Graham Grosvenor, able graduate of Otis Elevator Co., had done the groundwork, defined the problems. Four months ago James Franklin Hamilton, a railroad man, was called in to head all Avco's transport operations which constitute one-third of the industry's total in miles flown (TIME, Dec. 30). Now Mr. Coburn is called...
Frieda Hempel, Inc., cosmetic concern, of which the famed opera singer is a director, was sued for $2,958 back pay by Thomas La Prelle, the company's sales-manager...
...College Humor," in conjunction with the publishing house of Doubleday and Doran, has made announcement of its second prize college novel contest, the first of which was held this year. The magazine and the editors of the publishing concern are offering a prize of $3,000 for the best novel on college life written by an undergraduate or a graduate of not more than one year...
...leases throughout the land. On the Senate floor the Department was flayed for renting, often without competitive bids, not less than 27 offices, including those in St. Paul, Dallas, Grand Rapids, and Columbus, Ohio, from a Chicago syndicate known as Jacob Kulp & Co. It was charged that the Kulp concern did what amounted to a brokerage business in postal leases, had issued some $150,000.000 in bonds on the strength of these leases, which was vastly in excess of the true value of the properties rented...
...almost as regretful over a lost soul who has failed to try "Life on the Mississippi" or "A Tramp Abroad" for his later and more travelsome years. Perhaps these unfortunates may be redeemed from the pulpit of Sever 11. But it is more likely that Professor Murdock will concern himself with the later years of Mark Twain's life, for post mortem critics have discovered the many bitter pills under his palatable coating of gentle wit. For Clemens was the first American to discover that Uncle Sam would swallow an unpleasant truth if sufficiently sugared. Will Rogers has followed somewhat...