Word: bartlette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profits picking berries, spraying vegetables, digging ditches, selling clothes. Once he rode an ostrich in a race against a horse at a Grand Rapids racetrack. After college and law school at Boulder, Colo., he turned up in Manhattan as a law clerk in the famed firm of Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett. One day he prepared a contract on short notice for Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell when that dynamic utilitarian was president of Electric Bond & Share. Mr. Mitchell liked the contract, thought Clerk Odium a versatile young man. Then & there he installed him at Electric Bond & Share as a private assistant. Before...
Atlas Corp. was formed in 1923 as a private pool by Mr. Odium, his friend George Howard of Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett and their wives with a capital of $40,000. It took a drubbing in 1926, but coasted profitably into 1929. Then Floyd Odium began to smell Depression, to hoard his cash. When the October market barrage had subsided, he started picking up damaged investment trusts like Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Shenandoah Corp. and Blue Ridge...
Bernard Willis ("Barney") Snow, when not estimating crops for Bartlett Frazier Co. of Chicago, is playing politics or golf. Dean of forecasters, he has also served as bailiff of the Municipal Court and member of the Chicago City Council. Portly, bald-pated and 70, he sports a white military mustache, wears his hat tilted over one eye. He began as a Tennessee farmer, joined the Department of Agriculture as a day laborer in 1884. Nine years later he became the first commercial crop forecaster. He collects his information from 5,000 correspondents. Barney Snow has one eccentricity. He never selects...
...light comedy makes the laborious convolutions of Victor Schertzinger's story seem almost enjoyable. Leo Carrillo croaks so amiably that he may hereafter head Hollywood's oversized roster of dialect leading men. Best sounds: the Love Duet, from Act I of La Boheme, in which Michael Bartlett outsings Miss Moore...
Herant J. Adzigian, Reese L. Alsop, Robert Amory, Jr., John Page Austin, Arthur A. Ballantine, Jr., Nelson S. Bartlett, Jr., Albert E. Berry, Charles F. Brown, Thornton Brown, Samuel R. Callaway, H. Adams Carter, Robert S. Chafee, Pearson C. Cummin, Jr., Thomas G. Curtis, F. Stanton Deland, Jr., John Dorman, Gerald W. Downer, John T. Ducey, Jr., Thomas H. Edmands, Richard C. Ernst, Hayden Estey, Paul F. Fox Guy Garland, John Gilbert, George V. Goulder, William Gray, Robert Grinnell, George Gulian, Robert Hall, W. Davis Hardwick, John M. Hartwell, Jr., Richard C. Hayes, Michael Hovenanian, John S. Howe, Richard Illoway...