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...Suicide or Revolution." The present president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce is no such old-school businessman. Born in Brooklyn 61 years ago, Henry Ingraham Harriman joined the New York Bar, went to Boston to make his fortune. He helped found New England Power Association (which developed the first major hydro-electric sites on the Connecticut River) and untangle Boston's transit tangle. Director in many a potent New England bank and industry, he owns a 200,000-acre cattle ranch in Montana, reads Greek for relaxation. He has been close to the New Deal from...
Exercises lasting three hours were devoted to Peace, while savage jungle warfare raged less than 800 miles away in the Gran Chaco (see p. 16). Pointing out that five peace pacts of American application now exist, Argentina's courtly, old-school Foreign Secretary Carlos Saavedra Lamas urged that such of the 18 American nations present as had not signed all five should sign as many as they could as soon as they could. Rising to announce that the U. S. will sign Argentina's Pact, Secretary of State Hull praised "the Golden Rule, by which we mean...
...Corp. Hollywood thought that the shy, egg-headed Lasky and Adolph Zukor concealed a griping rivalry behind their affability. Presently Benjamin Percival Schulberg became Lasky's man: managing director of production. Sidney Kent was Zukor's man: general manager of distribution. All had been inoculated with the old-school extravagance of gold-plated cinema production. The fingers of their hands spread unconsciously, letting millions through...
...Sunday Editor he gave the New York Times its first rotogravure section. His first press-agenting was done for Oscar Hammerstein's opera company, which became overnight a threatening rival to the Metropolitan. At the Metropolitan he ignored changing fashions, kept his courtly, old-school ways, his Windsor ties, his tufted goatee, his hair long. His office was a celebrated rendezvous for newspaper-folk. Behind his rolltop desk hung his own definition of relativity- "There is no hitching post in the universe" -across which Albert Einstein wrote last year "Gelesen und richtig befunden...
...wears a placid look. Proud of his company, old Robert Long was sure that the troubles of 1930-32 would vanish as did those of 1874-75. Surprisingly, Halsey, Stuart & Co. (who sold the bonds), agreed, denounced the move as "decidedly destructive." In the fight that loomed last week Old Robert was not the example of a great name bowed as was Rudolph Spreckels, nor were his troubles those of new competition which befell Col. Carrington's Hudson River Navigation Corp. His fight was the fight of the old-school businessman. To visualize Long-Bell one must think...