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Economics Statistics was founded by three bright young disciples of Economist Lewis Henry Haney of New York University-George Ogden Trenchard, Jules Blackman and Andrew Lavell Jackson, great-grandson of Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson and onetime editor of Bradstreet. Working in Wall Street by day and plugging for Ph.D.'s by night, they absorbed Professor Haney's theories of forecasting business by analyzing demand-supply factors, amplified his statistical methods, established the service just a year ago. Their clients already include nearly every big Manhattan bank, countless brokers, such major industrials as General Motors and International Harvester...
...served only to time a tribute to him which was born of years of worthy work in the best field of letters. At a testimonial dinner presided over by Pontifex Minimus Henry Seidel Canty, buttressed by such notables as Nicholas Murray Butler, Thomas W. Lamont, Owen D. Young, Mrs. Ogden Reid, Felix Warburg, William Allen White, such literary sidelights as Willa Gather, Sinclair Lewis; Christopher Morley, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, the praises of Thomas Mann were to be chanted, droned and anecdotalized hour after hour at the Plaza Hotel...
Left. By Mrs. Elisabeth Mills Reid, widow of onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Whitelaw Reid: a net estate of $18,589,916; mostly to her children, Lady Ward and Ogden Mills Reid, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune. The estate included 16 automobiles, a $290,000 77-pearl necklace, a $15,000 Gainsborough, clothes valued at $50, a debt of $6,543 due from King Prajadhipok of Siam...
...Haven last week went Publisher Ogden Mills Reid of the New York Herald Tribune, to address the staff of the Yale Daily News, of which his son Whitelaw is a member. Publisher Reid told the college journalists the threadbare story of the publishers' fight against NRA for a "Free Press." Next day it took the Herald Tribune three full columns to report its owner's direful words...
...aged Poet Longfellow, appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. Otherwise, though she was a voracious reader and secret soliloquizer of stories, she conformed to the easy strictness of her station, making her debut in Manhattan and at 23 marrying Edward Wharton, Boston banker. Her first book, a collaboration with Architect Ogden Codman on The Decoration of Houses (1897), was daringly modern, surprised everybody by being a success. Soon she was well launched on her literary path. Few of her social acquaintance gave her any encouragement. "My literary success puzzled and embarrassed my old friends far more than it impressed them...