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Scion of the wealthy copper mining family which founded Douglas, Ariz. "Lew" Douglas was graduated from Amherst in 1916, studied metallurgy at M. I. T. With the gist Division he went overseas, a lieutenant of field artillery cited by General Pershing for bravery. Home and married, he took to citrus ranching, first tasted public life in the Arizona Legislature, got himself elected to Congress as his State's lone Representative in 1926. This week he rounded out his third term. A lean, wiry youngster with a quick grin and a ready tongue, Representative Douglas shot up to a commanding...
...That National City Bank financed its affiliate's pool operations in copper stocks. That National City Co. put on a whirlwind selling campaign in Anaconda copper in 1929, got the public to buy 1,300,000 shares at about $120 a share. Present price...
Leading oil was (as always) Standard of New Jersey. Liggett & Myers (Chesterfields) had beaten out George Washington Hill's American Tobacco (Lucky Strikes) as the favorite tobacco stock. Kennecott Copper replaced International Nickel as the leading metal. Favorite bank stock was Guaranty Trust, favorite specialty International Business Machines...
Awarded. To Hernand Behn, president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, by Pope Pius; to Psychiatrist Earl Danford Bond,.Philadelphia's $10,000 Bok prize for city service; to James Orr Elton, Anaconda Copper Mining Co. metallurgist, the 1933 James Douglas Medal, for improvements in smelting lead, zinc & silver; to Author Richmond Pearson Hobson, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for heroism in the Spanish-American War; to the University of Chicago's George Frederick & Gladys Henry Dick, the University of Edinburgh 1933 Cameron Prize, for discovering the scarlet...
Died. John D. Ryan, 68, board chairman of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; suddenly, of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Because his father was an able copper man, he shied away from copper, bought into a chain of Montana banks at 37, lined up with Amalgamated Copper Co.'s famed Henry H. Rogers in a copper war with Fritz Augustus Heinze. His spoils included Amalgamated's presidency in 1908. In 1910 he merged it into Anaconda, was set for the Wartime copper boom, built Anaconda by cheerful pugnacity and serious business into a $700,000,000 company...