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David Beatty, 59, Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, son-in-law of the late Chicago drygoods tycoon Marshall Field Sr., commander of the 1st battle cruiser squadron in the Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916), Lord Rector of Edinburgh University (1917), said: "We are about to commit the great appalling blunder of signing away the sea power by which the British Empire came into being and is maintained today. . . . The most enlightened sea officers with whom I talked have condemned the Treaty absolutely as one which will render...
After he was graduated from Amherst in 1879, Tycoon Folger divided his time between writing treatises on petroleum and monographs on Shakespeare, and making more money to buy more early Shakespeare editions. His hobby he shared with his wife. Together they amassed 25,000 rare volumes of the works of Elizabethan dramatists. Until his death the precise worth of this collection, now stored in Manhattan, was intentionally kept vague so that his reputation as a collector would not handicap him in making purchases...
...immediately faced with a large U. S. cigaret advertisement. In the last century Phineas Taylor Barnum tried to buy his birthplace. Retired Champion Fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney professes to admire his works above those of all other authors. Last week, by the will of a retired tycoon -Henry Clay Folger, onetime (1911-23) president of Standard Oil Co. of New York-the U. S. acquired a collection of the works of William Shakespeare "not even surpassed by the British Museum," also an imposing museum for it in Washington, D. C., near the national Capitol, also...
Died. Harry C. Stutz, 53, pioneer racing and pleasure-car tycoon; of complications following an appendectomy; at Indianapolis. Native of Ansonia, Ohio, he began his career in a Dayton machine shop, later sold Schebler carburetors, ran the Marion motor factory, designed the (long-since defunct) American car, built Stutz Motor Car Co. (with Henry Campbell) out of a motor parts company he founded in 1910, selling out in 1919. He and Campbell founded H. C. S. Co., last year rumored to be planning a merger with Commercial...
Harry Ford Sinclair, petroleum tycoon was last week reported as about to acquire Richfield Oil Co. of California. The rumor was not denied or affirmed at Sinclair offices, but it was conceded that Bancamerica-Blair, Sinclair bankers, held a large block of Richfield stock. Richfield is fourth largest oil distributor in California (leaders are Standard of California, Union Oil and Shell Oil), would supply Sinclair with desirable California distribution...