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...remained outstanding. One, perhaps the most spectacular, was John Davison Rockefeller's bid for 1,000,000 shares of Standard Oil of New Jersey. The other was the formation of the powerful Bankers' Consortium. Last week the Consortium issued its first official statement, making it through Morgan-partner George Whitney. Worded in ultra-conservative fashion, it was: "In behalf of the so-called banking group, consisting of ourselves, First National Bank, National City Bank, Guaranty Trust Co., Chase National Bank, Bankers Trust Co., Guggenheim Bros., which, on Oct. 24 last, was informally organized to assist in the stabilization...
Funds have been provided as follows: The Hadden family, $50,000; Henry R. Luce, partner of Mr. Hadden in Time, $25,000, and an alumni committee headed by Edward S. Harkness, the remainder...
Deep-voiced Andy is Charles J. Correll, 40. He is shorter than his partner, thickset, pompadoured. He was born in Peoria, Ill., sold newspapers, worked with his family's construction company, played the piano in a cinemahouse at night. He won local dancing contests, sang in minstrel shows, acted in neighborhood dramas. Finally he too became a professional coach. One of his assignments was in Durham, N. C., where he had to teach the business to a neophyte named Freeman F. Gosden. For six years they staged musical shows, plays and circuses for such organizations as the Elks, American...
...same virtues. Perhaps the fact that many of them fought in the World War is significant. In November 1918, John Wellborn Root, Captain with the U. S. Engineer Corps in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives, was wounded near Nancy. John Augur Holabird, later to become his architectural partner, was a West Pointer, served as Major and later as Lieutenant Colonel of Field Artillery...
...stones-solid bowls of granite or whinstone, beautifully smooth, with a twist of handle on top. Each side has four players, each player two stones. Players slide the stones at a tee at the end of a 114-ft. rink. One man runs his stone up dead; his partner lays one to protect him. If a deft opponent may skid between them, knocking both aside, curlers say he gie'd them breeks...