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...public, the first $10,000,000 of which would fall due June 1. Besides this obligation, Middle West owed the banks $30,000,000. If bankers forced the receivership, it was New York bankers, not Chicagoans. Although the Chicago banks may have Mr. Insull's personal fate in their hands because of the receivership of the Insull trusts investment, it is strong New York banks which are owed most money by Middle West...
Samuel Insull still recalls with pride that he was born, 72 years ago, in England. From boyhood he had great admiration for Thomas Alva Edison. By a quirk of fate he answered an advertisement for a secretary, found out that the man who had inserted the advertisement was Edison's London representative. Edison was struck with Mr. Insull's weekly reports, sent for him in 1881. For eleven years they worked together, Mr. Insull learning much about the technical side of the young light & power business. In 1892 Mr. Insull wrote to the capitalists controlling four-year-old Chicago Edison...
...fate of a Last Survivor, the lone lingering member of a species. Mateless, childless, friendless, he can only sit and brood upon the fate that has left him in a world whence all his kind has vanished. Such a bitter fate is that of the heath-cock of Martha's Vineyard. Once his kind filled the woods from Maine to Virginia, but hunters' guns reduced their numbers to a single flock which found refuge on Martha's Vineyard. Forest fires decimated the flock until in 1927 there remained only eleven heath cocks, two heath hens. Next year...
...died in Denver during the week. Boris Schatz had appealed for funds for his school and museum. He died in poverty. Said President Sokolow: "Today, all that we can give to Boris Schatz is our pity. . . . It is my hope that American Jews will not permit the fate that befell Boris Schatz to overtake Jewish upbuilding work in Palestine. . . . Let us act before pity is called...
...time Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company admitted what everyone already knew: that it was at the end of its resources. Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath frankly announced that there were insufficient funds to assure another season. The directors are to meet next week to determine the Company's fate...