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...year of the Big Blizzard, German Immigrant Louis Blaustein landed in New York with 50? in his pocket, lent it to a needy cousin, headed for Baltimore. From a one-horse wagon he peddled cans of kerosene, soon got a job with John D. Rockefeller's up-&-coming Standard Oil Co. When he quit to go into business himself in 1910, he was rich enough to buy a one-horse tank wagon, and sell gasoline from the rear end while his son Jacob drove...
...millionaire, charitarian Louis Blaustein, death came in 1937, few months after he had filed one of the most potent lawsuits ever brought in New York County's Supreme Court. Main defendants: Standard Oil Co. (Indiana); great Standard Oil Co. (N. J.); its operating subsidiary, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Last week stocky, easygoing Son Jacob was head of the Blaustein family and administrator of its Baltimore charities when Justice Samuel Irving Rosenman (onetime Governor's Counsel to F. D. R.) handed down a decision in the case...
...following were chosen for further trial: J. C. Blaustein '33, E. I. Montague '35, A. E. Newbold '36, W. W. Birge '35. T. G. Ratcliffe '35, J. T. Kenney '34, R. C. Sullivan '35, W. H. Ledgard '36, H. G. Hutchinson '33, G. E. Mercer '36, J. R. Yungblut '34, S. R. Clark '35, M. I. Byer '35, H. D. Patterson '34, E. K. Shapira '35, R. X. Goggin '36, Robert Breekinridge '34, W. S. Burrage '33, H. O. Tudor '35, John Cromwell '36, and S. D. King...
...Subscriber Blaustein wished a special column of New York news...
...Blaustein's gall deserves recognition, and we favor a mimeographed supplement to contain his neighborhood news...