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Only in Manhattan can the presidents of two multi-million dollar banks maintain practical anonymity. The two men in point are President Stephen Baker of the Bank of the Manhattan Co. (deposits: $281,483,902), and President Chellis A. Austin of the Seaboard National Bank (deposits: $175,056,084). The two men have been discussing the possible merger of their institutions, but so cautiously that some of their vice presidents and directors did not know what was going...
...onetime assistant state's attorney as its adviser) ; two on the south side (one of which is led by "Polack Joe" Saltis) ; one on the far west side with headquarters in Cicero where famed "Scarface Al" Caponi is king (TIME, Oct. 11). Their wars are flamboyant spectacles-a multi-punctured body on the steps of the Holy Name Cathedral in broad daylight, two more corpses across the street at the door of a florist's shop . . . the funeral of Dion O'Banion, with $30,000 worth of flowers, with thugs and city officials tramping solemnly side...
Married. Mulai Idriss, son and heir of the Sultan of Morocco, tc the daughter of El Glaowi, pasha of Marrakech; at Marrakech, Morocco. El Glaowi thus achieves his life ambition, to ally his family with that of Mohammed. Thousands of sheiks, nobly mounted, resplendent in white silk robes, multi-colored burnouses, attended. Beeves, steers, sheep revolved over log fires, fed 8,000 guests. Fountains radiated jeweled light, the populace danced in the streets, fireworks soared. Two other sons and a daughter of the Sultan having been wed at the same time, the potentate offered a new costume...
Three years ago a big, leathery-faced gentleman in white flannel trousers, white doeskin shoes, a blue serge coat and stiff straw hat, climbed carefully up to the driver's seat of a multi-horsepowered tractor reaper-binder and drove it around in a 90-acre Kansas wheat field for a few minutes, while cameras clicked furiously and other carefully garbed gentlemen stood in the stubble grinning jovially. Then President Harding, Senator Arthur Capper, Governor Davis, William Allen White and others repaired to a public green in the nearby town of Hutchinson, Kan., where the President gave a disquisition...
From the standpoint of multi-millionaire publishers, not only newspapers but editors are sometimes regarded as commodities that occasionally change hands. Last week Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, secured a new editor for his Manhattan paper, the New York Evening Post. The man whom Mr. Curtis secured is Julian Mason, who violates all newspaper tradition by being an exceedingly well dressed man, the best dressed editor in the country.* But Mr. Mason is not simply a natty dresser. He brought the Chicago Evening Post to a high rank among the newspapers of that city, was then called to Manhattan to become...