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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born 56 years ago in New Market, N. J., Charles Dunn went to work at 17 as a wholesale grocery salesman, later learned all there was to know about the commercial paper business, was with the banking and commercial paper house of Bond & Goodwin in 1929 when Eugene Meyer, then Federal Farm Loan Commissioner, telephoned him from Washington. After that long-distance interview he became a fiscal agent, with his amazingly wide acquaintance among U. S. bankers, acquired in distributing commercial paper, as his most valuable asset. A large, plump, kindly man with close-cropped hair, Mr. Dunn raises prize...
Anderson. Clayton & Co. can handle 2,000,000 bales of cotton annually, sells cotton in virtually every textile centre on earth. By now Senator Smith has detailed data on about everything Cottonman Clayton ever did since the day he was born in Tupelo, Miss. 56 years ago. Yet the most serious charge that the South Carolinian has ever been able to make is that Cottonman Clayton "dominated" the cotton market...
...Abbe (rhymes with tabby) is a professional U. S. cameraman (free lance) whose curious business and nomadic ways call him from one country to another at short notice. His wife is comely onetime Actress Polly Platt. In Paris, eleven years ago, the first of their three children was born. Around the World in Eleven Years is a child's-eye-view of the family's subsequent travels, written, so Parents Abbe aver, entirely by the children; and printed unchanged, except for corrections in spelling. Readers last week were whooping with delight over many a Young Abbe observation...
...three-child collaboration, the narrative never indicates exactly where the authorship changes hands, but internal evidence indicates that Eldest Abbe Patience did most. She starts the story from the very beginning, with the births of herself and her brothers. "But Papa had a good time before Johnny was born because he discovered how to stop all the traffic in Paris. He would take Mamma out in our Citroen and yell to the agents de police, 'femme enceinte,' which means, 'woman with child,' and the agent de police would stop all the trolley-cars and autos until...
...Author was born and bred on a Nebraska farm, could handle a team by the time he was 10. He still looks like a country boy. After farmwork, the University of Nebraska was like duck soup for him. He was well into the academic life when the Spanish War started, drew him into a dreary camp in Georgia. His sufferings there under army inefficiency started him thinking about politics, economics, sent him back to teaching with a thirst for modern facts. After posts at Bryn Mawr, Columbia. Nebraska. Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, journalism for the Unpopular Review and The New Republic...