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...month was removed from the pension rolls, ushered out of the National Military Home. At midnight he called on Col. Vernon Roberts, the Home's chief medical officer, shot him dead. ¶ In Washington an aged clerk was turned out of the Senate. He took poison, cut his throat. ¶ In Philadelphia an ex-Army captain wrote to President Roosevelt: "Suicide is the only way I can provide for those dependent on me, by making available to them the miserable balance due me on my adjusted compensation certificate [$275] . . . Why have you not had the honesty to conscript...
Hottest June day in Chicago's history (100.1°) occurred last week. Sluicing his throat with iced drinks at his home in Wheaton, Ill., Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, gave thought to his employes sweltering in that magnificent Gothic pile on Michigan Avenue, the Tribune Tower. Big-framed Col. McCormick marched to the telephone, called Superior 0100, got Holmes Onderdonk, Tribune building superintendent, on the wire. Said Publisher McCormick to Superintendent Onderdonk, in effect: "I want you to work up a plan for air-conditioning the Tribune Tower. Find out all about it-what systems...
...lately President Erskine has not even had an office at the plant. First citizen of South Bend, he left a note for his adopted son: "Russel, I can't go on any longer." Died. Hipolito Irigoyen, 85, twice president (1916-22; 1928-30) of Argentina; of a throat cancer; in Buenos Aires where he had lived a virtual prisoner since being overthrown by General Uriburu...
Partner Kahn asserted that his firm never actively sought new business, but waited, as befitted the banking house second only to J. P. Morgan & Co., for clients to come to it. Denouncing cut throat competition for bond issues, he declared that once "in those mad years [1926-28]'' 15 U. S. bankers were in Belgrade. Jugoslavia, participating in "an undignified scramble'' for an issue. "There were times," he said, "when a dozen were in Central . . . and Latin American states outbidding each other in a foolish, reckless search for business." "Was your bank represented at Belgrade?" asked...
...manager. Will Conrad Braun, and General Manager Olin West. They produce the income. They, however, do not guard the accumulation. For that job, Dr. Herman Louis Kretschmer, Chicago's genitourinary surgeon, was last week chosen A. M. A. treasurer. He succeeds Dr. Austin Albert Hayden. Chicago ear-eye-& throat surgeon, elected an A. M. A. trustee. Trustees were proud that the total depreciation of the securities in their charge "amounted to less than 6%, which is believed to be far less than the amount of depreciation in securities held by most other corporations.'' Only two issues...