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...this man it was said by a shrewd observer--Franklin K. Lane nearly fifteen years ago: "Here is a man for us to get next to. He is a Harriman, a Morgan, a Huntington, a Hill, a Bismarck, a Kuhn Loeb, and a damned Yankee all rolled into one! Can you beat...
Engaged. Prince Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck, 30, secretary of the German legation at Stockholm, aviator, grandson of the Iron Chancellor; to Miss Anni Marie Tengbom, of Stockholm, daughter of a Swedish architect...
Emil Ludwig (biographer of Napoleon, Bismarck, Wilhelm II) neglected to fulfill a lecture engagement in Milwaukee, Wis.; went to Daytona Beach, Fla., to visit John D. Rockefeller; watched the 88-year-old oilman play golf; said, "When I return to Germany I may write a sketch of Mr. Rockefeller." Mr. Ludwig recently let it be known that he considered the four greatest living U. S. persons to be Thomas A Edison, Jane Addams, Orville Wright, John D. Rockefeller...
...Prince Bismarck declared, towards the end of his days, that destiny fixed the total of every man's consumption of pleasurable goods. His own two major quotas, he specified, were 36,000 bottles of wine and 150,000 strong cigars. Statisticians do not know how many inhabitants of the U. S. consumed the 97,176,607,484 cigarets manufactured in 1927. Women have come to swell the legion, and for the first time in history the 1927 advertising budgets contained provisions for direct appeals to them. (Marlboro cigarets pushed the first overt advertising campaign for women smokers.) Production...
...subject to stomach trouble, fevers, apoplexy. They have a profile suggestive of a sheep. Under this sign were born James Thomas Heflin, Andrew William Mellon, James Branch Cabell, Mary Pickford, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Constance Talmadge, Charles Evans Hughes, the late John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Jefferson, Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck...