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Last week in the annual report of Hotchkiss & Cie Managing Director Benet had happy news for his stockholders. Due to an improvement in the arms business, profits for 1933 were $1,005,785 compared to $992,358 for 1932. Therefore he was able to declare a dividend of 65 francs per share ($4.32), compared to 60 francs ($3.98) a year...
...most fortunate old gentleman is tall, chin-whiskered Laurence Vincent ("Larry") Benet. Son of a brigadier general with the Union Army in the Civil War, he was born at West Point 71 years ago and schooled at Washington's famed old Emerson Institute and at Yale. In 1885 he went to Paris as a bright young engineer with La Societé Hotchkiss & Cie and has lived there ever since. His gracious wife Margaret was one of the Cox sisters of old Georgetown; Larry Benet married her after he returned as an ensign from the Spanish-American War. Best known...
...Franco-Prussian War, he moved to Paris to set up a new arms factory in suburban St. Denis. Ben Hotchkiss, like his compatriots, Gatling and Maxim, was one of the inventors of the modern machine gun. One of the firm's best sellers, now long outmoded, was Director Benet's own invention. Though the U. S. Army prefers the Browning, France uses the Hotchkiss extensively. So does Japan. To make him comfortable the Hotchkiss company keeps a special office for the Japanese military attaché near Paris on its private testing range. Most of last year...
...Thompson) in which both choruses joined to do honor to Horace, "By the Rivers of Babylon" (Loeffier) wherein the Radcliffe girls eloquently express the melancholy of the Psalmist, and "John Brown's Song" (Robert Delaney) which was a strange and certainly modern treatment of the poem by Steven Vincent Benet...
...their first child; in New Haven, Conn. Weight: 7 Ib. 12 oz. Name: Cynthia. Divorced. "Prince" David Mdivani, eldest of Russia's famed "Marrying Mdivanis"; by Mae Murray, onetime cinemactress; in Los Angeles. Grounds: extreme cruelty, unreasonable jealousy, hos tility toward her guests. Awarded. To Poet Stephen Vincent Benet (John Brown's Body) : the Roosevelt Medal "for distinguished service." To the late John Ripley Freeman (died Oct. 6) : the John Fritz Medal (No. 1 U. S. engineering award), for his pre-eminence "in the fields of hydraulics and water supply, fire insurance economics and analysis of earthquake effects...