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...Victor Company brought a portable recording machine as far south as Savanah, Georgia and Hall left Florida as a member of a group under a Mr. Alonzo Ross to make his first record, "Blue Steel." To find a copy of the disc today would be like procuring one of those proverbial hen's teeth, but quite a few must have been circulated at the time because the whole group got a job at New York's famed taxi dance spot, the Roseland, soon afterwards. Edmond has been in and around New York ever since...
...town's atmosphere of rugged independence many a titan of industry had flourished: John D. and William Rockefeller, Henry Flagler, Stephen Harkness and others of the original Standard Oil Co.; Samuel and William Mather, President-Maker Marcus Alonzo Hanna and a score of other ironmasters and lake shipping tycoons. In its formative era men of such wealth had largely held the reins of power over Cleveland's development. In more recent years, up to depression, the town had been greatly shaped to the mould of the late Oris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen, whose Terminal Tower remains...
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...first coach back of the engine, Alonzo Wilson, a New York City Negro, woke up to a nightmare of din and confusion. In one flashing instant before the lights went out he saw his wife and baby daughter crushed to death between seats that moved together like the jaws of a vise. Somehow, they were the only persons killed. But 23 were injured...
...Robert Erastus Wilson, 51, to its board chairmanship (vacant since 1929). Wilson knows better than anyone else in Standard how to crack the last salable product out of a gallon of crude oil. To make sure that Wilson will have enough crude to work on, Standard also upped Geologist Alonzo William Peake, a director, to the presidency, to succeed retiring President Edward Seubert. Eugene Holman, president of Standard Oil (N.J.), is also a geologist...