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...facts about Andrew Mellon, other than his fortune, were exceedingly simple. Born at Pittsburgh in 1855, he was the son of a hard-headed Tyrone County Scotch-Irishman who -"ounded the banking house of T. Mellon & Sons. At 18, Andrew quit Western University of Pennsylvania to start a lumber business with his 15-year-old brother, Dick. When the lumber business succeeded, first Andrew and then Brother Richard joined the bank, which they built into the $380,000,000 Mellon National Bank. In the next 40-some years, Andrew Mellon multiplied the Mellon capital...
Last week readers of the daily Press and Union of Atlantic City, N. J. perused such advertisements, noted that "the sponsors of this message" included Atlantic City Gas Co.; Freund Brothers, Opticians; Shill Rolling Chair Co.; West Side Lumber Co.; Brooks & Idler, Printers. Atlantic City citizens had seen a succession of such ads, but the author of them remained anonymous. He, the only "Go-To-Church Editor" of a U. S. daily, was Robert Earl Peifer. display advertising manager of the two newspaper...
...Mamoulian, it is shrewd, symphonic, sentimental mass entertainment, which should satisfy most cinemaddicts, surprise almost none. Good shot: a carnival strong man tossing Red Scanlon into a creek. The Toast of New York (RKO) exhibits Edward Arnold, previously seen as Diamond Jim Brady, General John Sutter and an Oregon lumber tycoon named Bernard Glasgow, as swashbuckling Jim Fisk, whose financial freebooting nearly disrupted Wall Street in the decade after the Civil War. Abetted by his young cronies, Nick Boyd (Gary Grant) and Luke (Jack Oakie), Fisk amiably horn-swoggles pious little Dan Drew (Donald Meek) out of control...
...dirigible Macon and presenting, as the picture's romantic lead, a heroic survivor who has lost a leg in that comparatively up-to-date catastrophe. The story thereafter concerns the efforts of Go-Getter Bill Austin (George Brent) to make a place for himself in the Ricks Lumber and Navigation Co. and to marry dear little Margaret Ricks (Anita Louise). Little Margaret's father Cappy views the later project with alarm but, of course, the Go-Getter goes & gets. Amiable, rapid and pleasant to watch, The Go-Getter's sole significance is that it definitely establishes Actor...
...Texarkana and H. L. Hunt of Tyler, Texas. Mr. Hunt bought out the interests of Columbus Marion ("Dad") Joiner, the oldtime wildcatter who brought in the East Texas oil field in 1930. Mr. Wadley got his start on Louis iana & Arkansas R. R., made a fortune in Porter-Wadley Lumber Co., is now one of the biggest independent oil operators in East Texas...