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...kin to the late Professor Samuel Wilson Parr who was onetime (1928) president of the American Chemical Society...
Founder Franklin Simon, no kin to Simple Simon,* has little doubt that his Greenwich venture will succeed. He well remembers his early success in penetrating a residential district. In 1903 he opened a store at Fifth Avenue & 37th Street, next to a Presbyterian church. First year it lost $40,000, second year $28,000. Third year the net profit was $84,000. Success was chiefly due to women's clothes imported from France. Franklin Simon, son of a cigarmaker, had learned the clothing business from Stern Brothers. On buying trips abroad he had been impressed by French styles. Until...
Died. William H. Hoover, 82, philanthropist, founder and board chairman, of Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners); after a short illness; in Canton, Ohio. His eldest son, Herbert W. (no kin to Herbert Clark Hoover), is president of the concern. Founder Hoover developed the vacuum cleaner from a friction sweeping device invented by a Cleveland janitor who, having asthma, hated dust...
...Foote Wrigley, widow of the late William Wrigley Jr., was elected to the boards of several Wrigley-controlled companies, including Chicago National League Ball Club. Unlike Alice Foote MacDougall (see p. 55), Ada E. Foote Wrigley (no kin) will not take over active management of her husband's affairs. She does not need to. Active head of William Wrigley Jr. Co. (gum), to the board of which she will not be elected, is her son President Philip Knight Wrigley, 38. His chief business ability is in advertising ; outside of the office his consuming interests are in mechanics, electricity, photography...
...damage case in a San Francisco court Henry W. Moltke, taxicab driver, took the stand. In jest the judge asked if the witness were kin to the late great Prussian general, Helmuth Carl Bernhard Count von Moltke. Replied the witness: "I am his grandson, your Honor. . . . Better a live taxicab driver than a dead general...