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These are now the best U. S. women swimmers and divers. A few years ago the best were Gertrude Ederle, who swam the British channel Aug. 6, 1926 and is now instructor at a pool near Manhattan; Martha Norelius, who won the Wrigley Marathon in 1929, the Olympic Championship in 1924 and 1928, is now married to Joseph Wright Jr., 1928 Diamond Sculls winner; Helen Wainwright who is giving diving exhibitions on the Berengaria's four-day tours; Aileen Riggin who toured Europe last winter and recently lost a job with Dobbs & Co., bankrupt haberdashers...
Last Saturday morning the Foreman officers realized the frozen condition of many of their real estate loans had impaired the banks' liquidity, that disaster was near. The directors, including Albert Davis Lasker, William Wrigley Jr., John Daniel Hertz, and members of the Foreman family, raised sufficient funds to tide the bank through the day. An appeal was then made to other Chicago bankers...
...Patterson last week negotiated the sale of the factory which made Liberty's cheap paper at Tonawanda, N. Y., to International Paper & Power Co. for $4,000,000. But the rumor that they would retire further from the publishing business, that they would sell their Chicago Tribune to William Wrigley Jr., Albert Davis Lasker et al. (TIME, April 13) had by last week lost most of its steam. First direct quotation of Publisher McCormick on the subject appeared in the form of a note to Managing Editor Edward Scott Beck, on the Tribune's bulletin board...
Certain sportive Chicago financiers have lately been amusing themselves by trying to circulate fantastic rumors. One story possibly attributable to such a source: that Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick was selling his interest in the Chicago Tribune to Gum Man William Wrigley Jr. and Advertising Man Albert Davis Lasker. The rumor gained wide currency last week because of the recent sale of Liberty to Bernarr Macfadden (TIME, April 13), but it brought only denials and loud laughter from the principals...
...Wrigley called his cotton plan a "sincere and friendly gesture to the South," which he is said to love because he used to travel through it as a drummer. Cotton traders agreed that it was a gesture, not a cotton speculation, because 200,000 bales would be too infinitesimal a quantity to affect the broad price of a crop that runs into 13 or 14 million bales. And for a shrewd piece of publicity to boost Wrigley sales in the South, advertising men gave Mr. Wrigley full credit. Like wheat in western Canada, cotton in the South is the overwhelmingly...