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Jefferson Seligman is 72. He often brings flowers to the office and gives them to the other men who form the partnership of J. & W. Seligman & Co., the firm which his father and seven uncles founded 68 years ago. More serious minded than his fun-fond cousin is Henry Seligman, 74, whose son, Walter, 36, represents the third generation of the partnership. The principal partner, the Sage of Seligman, is Frederick Strauss, 70, a deeply cultured, aristocratic financier. He loves poetry and quotes it easily. Under the Strauss prestige, Seligman & Co. has gone about its business quietly, politely...
...Zipser Neudorf, Czechoslovakia, a widow named Andrejcak was arrested on a dark night carrying from the local cemetery the disinterred body of a small boy. She confessed in court that her lover, Joseph Koery, seemed less fond of her than he had been; that she was going to use the body to compound a love-philtre...
...also add that father is very fond of TIME. He is always holding up your style of writing as a standard for his own editors and statisticians to follow...
...facts of the fiend being found and properly punished, which in my estimation deserves the same treatment he gave the poor dog. I might add that I could do the punishing myself, I believe, and not feel a qualm at his suffering. As you can understand I am fond of dogs, have seen so much of their intelligence and this treatment of a dog, no matter what kind or where, has made me wish to know that the party responsible is caught and not given a fine, but a severe punishment, one that will make him cringe...
...Bank, perhaps assisted by another institution, had seen the firm through heavy trouble with loans estimated at from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000. Early last week the old rumor again leapt forth. Heavy selling came into those securities of which Pynchon & Co. and its customers have been fond. Yet many people thought that the Chase would not desert Pynchon & Co. And even the day of the suspension it was known that arrangements had been made to carry the firm along. Aid had been promised by a Chicago tycoon, the Stock Exchange had a stenographic copy of a long...