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...possess outstanding qualities, I suppose they are good judgment, courage, industry, and a certain inborn genius." So once spoke Abram Edward Fitkin, 52, whose business consists primarily of buying and selling utility properties, who last week was once again negotiating a big deal with Samuel Insull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fitkin Sells Again | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

...Abram Edward Fitkin was the son of a harnessmaker, had twelve brothers and sisters. He studied for the ministry, married at 17. Five years later he announced: "It is better to be a good businessman than a poor minister." He became a bond salesman, saved up $75,000 from commissions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fitkin Sells Again | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

Died. John Newell Garfield, 39, employe of Boland & Cornelius Co. (shipping), Cleveland commander of the Crusaders (national anti-Prohibition group), grandson of James Abram Garfield, 20th President of the U. S. (assassinated in 1881); by his own hand (revolver) because of ill health; in Mentor, suburb of Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 1, 1931 | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

Judges of painting this year were Artists Gari Melchers, Abram Poole, Ezra Winter, Barry Faulkner, Austin Purves Jr. They gave the prize to "Little Savage" Harry Gregory Ackerman, 21, of New York City, a graduate of the National Academy of Design's Manhattan school who worked his way through Yale by winning scholarships. He is a native of Rumania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Little Savages | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...McGinley, II 146 FOR ORATOR Paul Brooks 195 Armistead Buckner Rood 95 Arnold Louis Kowarsky 74 Samuel Kunen 28 FOR ODIST Eugene Louis Belisle 145 Arthur John Joseph Bohn 117 Wilson Mumford Wing 97 George Seers Greene 79 FOR POET Thomas Graydon Upton 129 David Damerest Lloyd 85 Horace Abram Rigg 82 Robert Arthur Peel 55 Charles Francis Elliot 37 *Elected

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIOR CLASS SELECTS 14 OFFICERS FROM 44 NOMINEES | 12/12/1930 | See Source »

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