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...includes men of whom the general public rarely hears: William Henry Albers, president of the Kroger Grocery & Baking Co., a chain rapidly spreading over the country; Harold O. Barker of Jessup & Lament, classed in Wall Street with J. S. Bache & Co. as the largest of purely stock brokerage houses; John Hanes Jr. of Chas. D. Barney & Co., large brokerage and underwriting house; Robert Lehman of Lehman Bros...
...paint, varnish, alcohol, pyralin, cinema film, ammonia, nitric acid and 23% of General Motors common stock) : $30,125,125 as against $21,436,642. Telautograph Corp. (point to point handwriting device): $144,103 as against $124,302. John R. Thompson Co. (120 restaurants) : $667,656 as against $769,024. Barker Bros. Corp. (furniture, rugs): $202,410 as against $286.488. Dennison Manufacturing Co. (Dennison boxes): $330,000 as against...
...Emma C. Barker, who serves "the chief's" 60-cent luncheons at the Department of Commerce, told the New York World that "the chief" relishes peanuts...
...first plays to be presented here, and "Caliban", the effort of Percy Mackaye to go Browning, and Shakespeare, one better was given shortly after the World War. And the classical play has not absented itself from classical setting, for the "Iphigenia in Taurus" of the company of Granville Barker likewise saw worthy performance in appropriate surroundings. Within the year Miss Anglin's "Electra" has been produced in the Greek Temple of Berkeley, California, out of door stage of the University of California. Thus the fear of commercialism, natural suspicion when the stage touches the college closely, is a bugaboo...
...bungalow accompanied by his protege, Red Grange. Behind the bungalow came a broadcasting car which cost $1,000 a week to operate. Behind the broadcasting car, before much time had passed, came sheriffs on motorcycles. Soon the bungalow was attached for debts. At every town runners quit. Red Grange, barker of a side show which Pyle set up in a tent wherever he stopped failed to make money. Pyle gave the runners $1.50 a day for food, put cots for them in empty stores. In Chicago there was no cash on hand. When it seemed sure that everything was over...