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...were importing foreign seamen under bond to run their boats, instead of employing U. S. hands. The bureau took the names of the yachtsmen complained against, sent them to Secretary of Labor Doak. Last week in Manhattan the sport of tycoons was again mentioned in connection with unemployment. Explained Broker Edward F. Button, owner of Hussar...
...Arthur Pound; Harold Cunningham, onetime master of S.S. Leviathan, and his successor, Albert Randall; Managing Editor Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal, Colyumist Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, Artist Tony Sarg, Funnyman Tip Bliss. Actor James Gleason, Funnyman Milt Gross, Banker Phelps Newberry of Detroit (Guardian Detroit Bank); Broker Edward H. Kittredge (now Augmented Bombarde of the Guild...
...move to Manhattan was that at that time potent Chicago speculators, including John W. ("Bet-a-Million") Gates and Col. John Adams Drake, were transferring activity to Wall Street. Later the firm played a big part in James R. Keene's operations in United States Steel. Broker for some big Hartford insurance companies. Pynchon became intrenched in New England. Legend has it that James Goodwin Batterson Jr., son of the founder of Travelers Insurance, once cleared $1,000,000 in a year's operations through the firm...
Loree Present. In 1924 Railroader Leonor Fresnel Loree instructed his broker to buy for him 14,000 shares of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad stock. A few weeks later, Kansas City Southern Railway Co., of which Mr. Loree is chairman, decided to buy control of M.K.T. Shrewd Mr. Loree made $144,000 on his M.K.T. stock. In 1928 the Interstate Commerce Commission investigated Mr. Loree's trade, questioned his ethics. Last week this annual report of Kansas City Southern revealed that Mr. Loree last year paid over to the road his $144,000 profit. He said his action was merely...
...Author. Like William Shakespeare, Dashiell Hammett has little Latin and less Greek, abandoned formal education in his first year of high school to be: a messenger boy. clerk in an advertising office, in a broker's office, timekeeper in a machine shop, stevedore, railroadman. But his chief job, at which he worked both before and after the War, was as a Pinkerton detective. He says: "I was a pretty good sleuth, but possibly a bit over-rated because of the plausibility with which I could explain away my failures." During the War, Hammett acquired a sergeantcy and tuberculosis, has lost...