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...first business day of 1931, the law firms of Miller, Otis & Farr and Hornblower, Miller & Garrison will be open for business as the law firm of Hornblower, Miller, Miller & Boston. Senior partner of the new firm will be Nathan L. Miller, of Miller, Otis & Farr. Onetime (1921-23) Governor of New York, Mr. Miller has served in many public offices, now is general counsel for U. S. Steel Corp., of which he is a director and member of the finance committee. His firm's clients include Continental Can, Crucible Steel, estate of Nicholas Brady. The other Mr. Miller...
...greatest of their beneficences, the so-called Nobel Peace Prize. They made up lost time last "week by awarding the Peace Prize twice in succession: for 1929 to Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime janitor, lawyer, onetime U. S. Secretary of State; for 1930 to the Most Rev. Dr. Nathan Lars Olof Jonathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, primate of the Lutheran Church in Sweden, father of twelve. Each of these distinguished gentlemen will receive $46,430. U. S. newspapers cheered, for Mr. Kellogg is the third U. S. citizen to be raised to the Nobelity this year, together with Novelist Sinclair...
...last week there was every indication that soon a merger, the first New York merger ever to combine four active banks at one time, will be accomplished. Universal opinion was that the combined banks would use the name and charter of Manufacturers Trust Co., and that Manufacturers' chairman, Nathan S. Jonas, would continue as head. Famed for many Jewish philanthropic activities is able Banker Jonas. Once he worked as an errand-boy for New York Safe Deposit Co., but that was as close to banking as he got until 1905 when, at the age of 36, he was chosen...
Appointed. Nathan Straus Jr.; to be vice chairman of the Zionist Emergency Fund in Manhattan, to combat the British Palestine policy; thus taking over Zionist responsibilities of his ill father, Nathan Straus...
...William James Conners, 36, widow of the hard-bitten Buffalo brewer and steamship operator who bought the Buffalo Enquirer "because everybody roasts me and now I want to heat a pan" (TIME, Oct. 14, 1929), last week heeded a talmudic apothegm which patriarchal Nathan Straus once telegraphed her late husband. Nathan Straus had said: "When you give at death it is lead; when you give in sickness it is silver; when you give in health it is gold." Mrs. Conners believes that San Francisco's Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber can cure cancer with an extract...