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Ballyhooed by this handbill, "Doc" Rockefeller witched dollars out of the pop-eyed citizenry of Midwestern hamlets before the Civil War. Husky, usurious, "Doc" believed sharping made the victim sharp. Hence didactic William sharped his own son out of board-money. That son, grateful for sharpness thus acquired, was, is, John Davison Rockefeller, "world's richest man," whose ninetieth birthday comes next week...
...flouted by those who either honestly believed in this plan or felt that the House, heretofore gagged, should be given a chance to express itself. Speaker Longworth and other leaders had refused to give the House a vote on the debenture plan for two reasons: 1) it would force midwestern Congressmen to go on record on a politically troublesome issue; 2) it would be a backdown by the House on its claim that the Senate had no constitutional authority to originate such a "revenue-raising" plan...
...years ago, no one in Wall St. knew Samuel Ungerleider, midwestern distiller. Even today perhaps the "new" traders are not particularly familiar with Stockbroker Ungerleider. Yet a potent brokerage establishment is Samuel Ungerleider & Co., with its home office at No. 50 Broadway and branches throughout the Middle West. And when, last week, "Ohio Sam" an nounced the formation of Ungerleider Financial Corp., a general investment trust, the potent names of William Fox, head of Fox Films, David Bernstein, treasurer of Loew's, Inc. (Fox subsidiary), William Crapo Durant, motor-and market-man, and Louis S. Posner, of Jonas & Neuburger...
...story is as simple as life itself seems to be. A Midwestern youth who wants to be an architect takes his greatest satisfaction in the fact that he is free, that he may defy his drab background, and do as he pleases in becoming great. Then, one moonlit night, a girl's arms fasten him, innocently, generously, but so tightly that he can never escape. He tries, of course, but finds that his ambition has been diluted by emotion. He settles down in the environment he hates, trapped, but sure that he will not vegetate as all the others...
...front cover} In 1925 three young men, energetic and determined, were elected Presidents of three of the huger Midwestern universities. The educational world looked to them for dynamic administrations, shrewd innovations. Their average...