Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...succeed Editor Gauvreau is one M. H. Weyrauch, onetime assistant city editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, whom Mr. Gauvreau took to the Graphic when it was started...
...corporation is a company and a company is a corporation, but in the official names of industrial establishments, Co. and Corp. should never be confused. Last week in Brooklyn many a stockholder in a Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Co. thought himself wealthy, discovered himself tricked. He had bought (at from $25 to $30 a share) stock in Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Co. He knew that Curtiss and Wright were famed aviation names, were also famed aviation companies. He knew also that Clement Melville Keys' Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co. had merged with Richard F. Hoyt's Wright Aeronautical Corp. Obvious...
Died. Dr. Edward Hamilton Squibb, 76, of Brooklyn, longtime President of E. R. Squibb & Sons (drugs); in South Harwich, Cape Cod; of heart attack...
Show Girl. Dixie Dugan lived in dingiest Brooklyn. Light of foot and heart, she obtained an interview with the great Producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. by telling him she bore a message from his wife. It was not long before Dixie danced in the Follies. She was loved by a greeting card salesman who quoted his sentiments from his wares. She was desired by a swart tangoist. There was a penthousebroken aristocrat who tried to seduce her. Ultimately she was won by Jimmy Doyle, newsgatherer and Follies librettist...
...merged Bank of America and Chatham-Phenix institution will be presided over by President Louis G. Kaufman of Chatham-Phenix. Amadeo Peter Giannini will probably become Board Chairman. Elisha Walker will head the investment affiliate. It is expected that two Brooklyn banks-Traders' National and Nassau National will soon join the Bank of America family. Because news of the merger leaked out prematurely, and because merged banks are hard to christen, no name for the new institution had been chosen last week...