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Bankers scanned the list of directors, noted these names with particular interest: Robert Lehman (investment banking); Walter P. Chrysler (motor cars); William Wrigley Jr. (chewing gum) ; Thomas L. Chadbourne (law) ; Edward Phillip Farley (shipping); Clement M. Keys (airplanes); Charles F. Noyes (real estate); David A. Schulte (real estate, cigars...
...Wrigley Jr. Co. (gum-chewing Spearmint boys): $4,907,162 as against...
...vending machine manufacturers: Automatic Merchandising Corp. of America (United Cigar Stores has a large share in this one); Sanitary Postage Service Corp. (its machines sell one and two cent stamps in 30,000 drug stores, ten postoffices); General Vending Corp. (36,000 ubiquitous automatic weighing machines) ; Hoff Vending Corp. (Wrigley gums, Life Savers candies); Seher Mack Corp. of America; Remington Service Machines, Inc. Remington Arms Co. is to manufacture these mechanical merchants...
Last week, an expected baby again appeared as a news item. The despatch, sent by the Associated Press wire, was dated from Chicago. Who in Chicago was important enough to have an impending descendant talked about in print? A McCormick? A Swift? A Wrigley? An Insull? Whatever may have been their anticipations, none of these were named last week as prospective parents. Perhaps then a politician or a gangster was expecting: was Big Bill Thompson about to be a parent? Scar-Face Al Capone, had he a blushing hope ? Or was it Len Small who was soon to gain...
...Sinclair-Hays-Upham machinations, Senator Walsh asked Mr. Patten if he knew of other Chicagoans who had similarly been asked to give cash for Liberty Bonds. Mr. Patten knew of none such, but he spoke freely of other Chicago patrons of the G. O. P. He named William Wrigley, "who is in Chicago hardly one month out of the year," and Arthur Cutten, another grain man. "I presume the McCormicks would come in that list," Mr. Patten added...