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...third plan is to erect permanent steel stands which would be left standing during the entire year. The architectural firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbot has prepared a set of drawings illustrating each plan, which will be consulted at the meeting...
...early years in newspaper work in Elmira. In 1906 he bought a half-interest in the Elmira Gazette, combining it with the Star. He fought shy of the larger cities for years as he expanded his holdings, buying up papers two at a time, consolidating them on firm financial bases. He went to Ithaca, to Rochester, to Utica; to Plainfield, N. J.; and back to New York with purchases in Newburgh, Olean and Ogdensburg...
Perhaps it is fortunate that the theory didn't come earlier. We might have lost two very convenient lines of verse if Fitz-James had realized that his rock was shifting from its firm base at that very minute. And Juliet might have spoken more respectfully of "the inconstant moon"--which is now, by its very inconstancy, shown to be the villain in the piece, exciting supposedly immovable earth to the most unsettling twitches and tremors...
...failure of the papers in these places may generally be laid to a too high sense of duty. Conscious of the distinction conferred upon them by a row of linotype machines at their bidding, they publish definite opinions on questions of supreme importance. Too often there is no firm foundation of fact, and because disapproval is the easiest course for misinformation, the result is the cynicism which has become a byword...
...International Acceptance Bank in 1921. Born in Hamburg in 1868, Paul M. Warburg entered a Hamburg export house at 18, entered the House of Warburg at 20. Followed experience in English, in French banking houses, a world tour, a return to Hamburg, and, in 1896, membership in the Warburg firm. In 1894 Mr. Warburg had married Nina, daughter of Solomon Loeb of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. In 1902 he came to live in the U. S., became partner in Kuhn-Loeb, in which Brother Felix had been a partner since...