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...Moody Investment Service: "I'd rather buy genius than material." The Billion. In 1916, Partner John W. Prentiss of Hornblower & Weeks met Henry Ford in Detroit. Said Mr. Ford: "Oh, you are one of those Wall Street guys." Mr. Prentiss offered him a half billion dollars for his concern. Mr. Ford laughed at him. In 1924 Mr. Prentiss offered Edsel Ford a billion dollars. Edsel Ford refused him. In 1925 were repeated both offer and refusal. Early this year Mr. Prentiss heard that the Fords might recapitalize. Edsel Ford denied this...
...found also the three books which President Eliot himself thought might have a more permanent value than other writings--"The Happy Life"; "John Gilley"; the "Life of Charles Eliot". "These papers on the conduct of life are the answer to those who think of Dr. Eliot as a man concerned only with intellectual and material values. They display from many angles his profound concern with human character and his conviction that it is in spiritual things that the permanent satisfactions of life are found...
Singer Ernestine Schumann Heink helped out the American Tobacco Co. last week. This concern, like all other tobacco manufacturers has been reluctant to advertise directly to women cigaret smokers, although women at present are an important clientele; but the manufacturers feared arousing the latent U. S. hostility to tobacco (TIME, Jan. 31). Prohibition has taught them much. However, the American Tobacco Co.'s advertising agency advised boldness and got Madame Schumann Heink to testify: "I recommend Lucky Strikes because they are kind to my throat." If Madame Schumann Heink smokes cigarets and yet remains solidly respectable and virtuous...
...story of the man whose hired car lead to his "social degradation" when its obstinacy en route to New Haven prevented him from keeping two dates and from seeing the Yale game. In his indignation he sued and now has $30 to his credit in a "Drivurself" concern which sum is to be expended in driving whenever he so desires...
...lending money for small apartments or flat houses and one and two-family houses." When he had first said this, President Simon William Straus of S. W. Straus & Co. had not agreed with him entirely. Mr. Straus' house, beyond cavil, underwrites more mortgage bonds than any other concern in the country. His estimate of the nation's building situation is considered, by most men, to be authoritative, and, last week he stated: "Current conditions lead me to the conclusion that there should be a temporary breathing spell in construction [of office buildings, hotels, apartment houses] throughout...