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...helpers. One was a socially topflight admirer, dashing Civil War Major General E. Burd Grubb, a West Pointer with an inherited business. He sent her violets daily from his hothouses but never (he had a strict moral code) asked her aboard his transatlantic yacht. The second was a smooth operator known as "P'ison Jim" Seymour. His diabolical advice to Harriet: "Let the men fool around with mines and railroads. See what you can take out of their wives...
...finals of the University singles tournament are scheduled to be run off this afternoon starting at four o'clock with five events for single scullers of varying degrees of attainment. In the feature race of the afternoon at 5 o'clock George Burd is favored to win the Senior singles title from his classmate Phil Wilson...
Last week the following were news: C. Succeeding E. Burd Grubb, who lately moved over to the Big Board as a partner in Coggeshall & Hicks, Fred C Moffatt, senior member of Moffatt & Spear, was elected president of the New York Curb Exchange, No. 2 U. S. securities market. Son of a minor Erie R. R. official who died when his son was 15, President Moffatt got his start as a Postal Telegraph messenger boy in Scranton, Pa. He bought his Curb seat in 1923, two years after that boisterous outdoor market sought the dignity and protection of a roof...
...Yachtsman Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, is being boomed for president of the New York Stock Exchange. At a big testimonial banquet for the most popular Curb president in years, Richard Whitney, noting such reports about his possible successor, generously declared: "I sincerely hope that is right and E. Burd Grubb will be a president of the New York Stock Exchange-and soon...
Even more athletic than big, brawny President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange is tanned, wiry President E. Burd Grubb of the New York Curb, second largest exchange in the U. S. He was Delaware River champion swimmer, amateur welterweight boxing champion of Philadelphia (1911). He holds a course record of 70 at the swank Somerset Hills (N. J.) golf club. His British uncle, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, last year's challenger for the America's Cup, taught him to fly, but up until two years ago he preferred to streak across the New Jersey flats...