Word: keiths
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...reorganized, began to make feature pictures successfully on a small scale. Its principal assets were a library of film stories said to be the best in the business, and the services of three brilliant young actresses-Ann Harding, Constance Bennett, Helen Twelvetrees. Last week for $5,000,000 Radio-Keith-Orpheum, lusty and successful young cinema company sponsored by great Radio Corp. of America, bought "certain assets" of the Pathe company. These assets included the crowing cock trademark, the three actresses, the library. They did not include the 49% interest which Pathe holds in the profitable Du Pont-Pathe Film...
...long disagreed on the immediate use of wealth. Nearly 30 years ago John Harvey invented a precooked breakfast food. The brothers manufactured it together. When its sales earned them big money, Dr. John Harvey insisted on spending the money on sociological activities-child welfare, public health, race improvement. Will Keith insisted on letting the business amass a fortune before giving the money away. His viewpoint was that business should be the benefactor of society. His brother's view was that business should be the servant of society. Their ultimate purpose was the same-giving away their fortunes...
Impatient, Dr. John Harvey wanted to supervise his own benevolence. He sold his interest in the food concern to Will Keith for almost a quarter of a million dollars, and almost at once founded the Race Betterment Foundation (1906). A more intimate good deed was his legal adoption of 14 orphans and his complete support of some twoscore more. The profits of his profitable Battle Creek Sanitarium go to such works (TIME...
...John Harvey made himself more famed than his business (the Sanitarium) and his benefactions. Brother Will Keith made his business (Kellogg Co.) more famed than himself. The public knows practically nothing about him. Employes of the Kellogg Company have stern orders against exploiting him. Servants of the Kellogg Inn at Battle Creek, his legal residence, dare not talk. Dr. Carrie S. Staines Kellogg, 63, his second wife, who practices at Battle Creek, minds her own patients, not his business. Nor is there much small talk about him at Pomona, Calif., where he is breeding the largest registered herd of Arabian...
Reckless Woman. Youthful Mrs. Jessie Maud Keith-Miller, famed for her 1927 co-flight from England to Australia, wanted to "put myself over as a commercial pilot" by showing she could fly a "rotten" plane as well as a good one. In a rebuilt Eaglerock Bullet which she called an "unairworthy crate rescued from the junkpile," devoid even of a turn-&- bank indicator, she flew solo last fortnight from Pittsburgh to Havana. Despite a 30-m.p.h. wind, despite her own admitted fright and premonition of failure, she took off last week from Havana to return across the Gulf. She never...