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...Parker Gilbert, a young New Jersey Baptist who took his B. A. at Rutgers only two years before the World War began, now sits fiscally enthroned over Germany as Agent General of Reparations. Beside 34-year-old Seymour Parker Gilbert such financiers as John Pierpont Morgan, 59, of 23 Wall Street, loom as fiscal gaffers. Yet there are among active U. S. fiscal titans men of a youthful middle age. For example, Clarence Dillon, of Dillon, Read & Co., is 44. Mr. Dillon is of course the enfant terrible of Wall Street, "a comer," who has "come," a dollar-genius brilliant...
...Hudson River and the Irishmen were Governors Smith of New York and Moore of New Jersey, "two outstanding Wets in a dry spot." They had on their tops hats and morning coats, for they were met- where a line of blue mosaic was worked in the tiled wall to mark midstream-in the Holland* vehicular tunnel connecting Broome St., Manhattan, and 14th St., Jersey City, to signalize its completion. Largest river tunnel in the world,* the 50-million-dollar Holland project consists of two tubes, each for one-way traffic, 9,250 ft. long, with room for two lanes...
...eaten in Brooklyn in the next thirty-five years. He started a sausage factory. The business grew to include not merely sausages but the whole line of delicatessen products. Today the name, "Adolf Gobel, Inc." on these products is an assurance of the highest excellence. Last week a Wall Street group purchased, through Hitt, Farwell and Co., the Adolf Gobel Co. for $2,500,000, reorganized it under the same name. Thus they assure themselves of an $8,000,000 yearly turnover...
...atrocity. Five Catholic priests, declared Archbishop Ruiz, had been seized in the state of Michoacan by troops under command of General Mange. The priests were charged with inciting the populace to riot, were marched without trial to the Hacienda La Gua Yaba, were lined up against a stone wall and shot down by a firing squad...
...weeks ago, late one night, seven grimy miners toiled in the zinc-and spar-veined bowels of a mountain near Salem, Ky. With a surly roar, the wall of their tunnel collapsed behind them. Two men dashed for the shaft, shouting, "The cut's pullin', boys!" Another man, Roy James, could have escaped, but tore back the other way, through a foaming flood of subterranean water, to warn his comrades, George Castiller, Harry Watson, U. B. Wilson and Randolph Cobb. . . . Out in the shaft, Garth Heare, the mine's superintendent, labored night and day to drill through...