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...systematically budgeted every day's time. Master of every brokerage trick, he drove himself unsparingly through the corporate intricacies of rubber, nickel, public utilities, sugar and oil. He amazed associates by his instantaneous decisions, nettled callers by clipping their conversation short when he foresaw their missions. Partner Stone was silent from the start. Banker Hayden never cultivated an assistant. Until he was stricken last month, he ran his own labyrinthine business by himself, piled up 89 directorships, 58 of which he still held at the time of his death, ranked as a prime Wall Street Power...
...refusing to make personal appearances to encourage the sale of "Old Champ" liniment. Negro Pugilist Jack Johnson was sued for $360.96 damages by his partner, Morris Botwen. Boxer Johnson declared the liniment Partner Botwen was marketing was not the same good "Old Champ" he had given friends for years to "cure toothaches, headaches or any other kind of ache...
Credit for the milestone went not to Promoter O'Brien but to a new and extraordinary group of backers headed by Tilden's onetime doubles partner, Francis Townsend Hunter...
Also made a Lehman partner last week was Joseph A. Thomas, 30, a smart Yale graduate (Class of 1928) who has been with the firm since...
...odds the outstanding men on the ice were the Green defensemen, Don Otis and Gordon Bennett, whose thumping bodychecks were a thorn in the side of the Crimson all evening. Football-captain Bennett and his equally husky partner were all too reminiscent of the days of Harvard's Bigelow brothers...