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Every year, on the anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Benkard & Co. present a Shakespearean recital, coached by Edward Fales Coward, onetime dramatic critic for the New York World, now connected with the firm. Broker Benkard is himself an authority on Shakespeare...
Married. For the third time, the former Miss Katherine Harris, one-time actress successively wife of famed actor John Barrymore and one Alexander Dallas Pratt, Manhattan broker; to M. Leon Orlowski, second secretary to the Polish Legation at Washington...
...chancellors agreed, the Old Cabinet Minister hemmed affably. So the little grey man guessed he was John K. Petre without doubt, evidently a U. S. millionaire and a devil of a fellow for secrecy and mystification. He kept his counsel, was enigmatically acquiescent with the broker chap. He made thousands in Touaregs (whatever they were), millions on the Paddenham Site (for some reason), millions more in Rotors (strange as it seemed...
...customs dues for the last 71 years, and wants to be given that right at once. This question is all but inextricably involved, because the former Imperial Government of China found it convenient to turn its whole tariff-collection system over to John Bull, who as "honest broker," collected the tariff, paid it over to the Imperial Government, and later made loans to China with the tariff as security, the interest upon which now absorbs practically all the money that is collected from this source...
...early developed a penchant for the Christian ministry. But before his education had been completed, circumstances threw him into money-making and set him down on a bookkeeper's stool in the Osage Coal and Mining Co., Selma, Ala. He rose, prospered. In 1892 he was a banker, a broker, a potential payer of income surtaxes. Having compounded with the market place, he was two years later ordained priest of the Episcopal Church and sent as missionary along the Alabama River. At the turn of the century, Baltimore called him home. He became rector of St. Michael and All Angels...