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...speculation was flourishing in San Francisco, New York, too, had a mining exchange. In 1879 it averaged some 55,000 shares a day (against the new market's 8,000 on opening day). Some old New Yorkers can still recall the high hopes they had when they bought Bertha & Edith at 8?, the higher hopes when six months later it was 39?, the chagrin when it was stricken from the list as valueless...
...aware that Editor Zittel is a nephew of Henry Morgenthau., Wilsonian U. S. Ambassador to Turkey. His mother was Bertha Morgenthau; his father Gustav Zittel, son of the late Professor Karl Alfred von Zittel, famed paleontologist. Zit is proud of his popularized nickname, has had it painted on the door of his automobile; wears in his lapel a diamond-studded...
...propaganda across No Man's Land night and day, attacking the enemy's morale, keeping him awake. In the laboratory, mice have been killed by a sound barrage. The German superspeaker tested last week may with development prove in the next war to be a sound Big Bertha...
...country and gardens." Audiences watching her are reminded of Actress Claudette Colbert (TIME, April 28). Because she is an admirer of Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and because of the vulgar significance which attaches itself to the word "broad," two years ago she changed her name, which had been Bertha Broad. Critics thought her performance in Courtesan a trifle vociferous but capable...
...society colyumist of the Tribune; and Artist Frederick Clay Bartlett and his socialite sister; Bishop & Mrs. Charles Palmerston Anderson (he is the new presiding officer of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Mr. & Mrs. Louis Eckstein (he backs the Ravinia Opera); Mr. & Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank (she, a potent socialite Democrat); Mrs. Bertha Baur (socialite Republican); Mr. and Mrs. Arch Wilkinson Shaw (President Hoover consults him on business...