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...journalistic corpses which litter his past are the New York Mail, swallowed by Frank R. Munsey; the Detroit Journal, swallowed by Hearst; the Memphis News-Scimitar; a paper in Lancaster, Pa. These he bought and then sold. But he rejects vigorously the idea that he is a newspaper broker. "It is a good business," he says, "but it is not my business." He sold the Mail, he explains, because neither he nor his partner, Henry L. Stoddard, had the money to carry on. The Journal was a sacrifice to a Hearst scare in Detroit. Neither the News-Scimitar...
...Died. John Jay, 50, Manhattan broker, direct descendant of famed first U. S. Chief Justice John,Jay; of appendicitis; in Hyannis, Mass...
...Dallas, Tex., Vincent Kerens, bond broker, received $1,900,000 last week because he, "of his own free will and desire, has passed five consecutive years of sobriety and good behaviour." These terms had been laid down by the will of his father, diplomat, railroader, who died...
Married. Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, unsuccessful publisher who last fortnight announced plans to pay 3,000 stockholders for losses incurred through his tabloid news ventures (TIME, July 9) ; and Mrs. Mary Weir Logan ; in Reno, one half hour after Mrs. Vanderbilt had obtained a divorce from Waldo Hancock Logan, Chicago broker...
...year, rides to work at 8 a. m. on the subway. He has no children, no partners. He swears he will tear up that list on his desk before he dies. That is why he wants to live to be 85, 95, a century. . . . Citizens recalled a younger broker, whose firm failed in 1905 and who has paid all debts with interest for 22 years. He is Reuben H. Donnelley, 63, now famed as president of the Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. and vice president of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., able Chicago printers (TIME...