Word: butted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"It was a grand 15 years of it, and I relished every minute. But lately I've had my doubts. . . ."
Not the tower but the man who built it fell last week.
The fall included himself, the W. B. Foshay Co. (holding company for public utilities, commercial and industrial enterprises), the Public Utilities Consolidated Corp. (subsidiary operating utilities), the Foshay Building Corp. (real estate). The value of the three companies was estimated at $20,000,000. But their liabilities last week were...
W. B. Foshay, born in Ossining, N. Y., started out to be an artist. But his father's business failure put an end to his art courses at Columbia University.* For four years he worked with the New York Central Railroad Co., later he joined Electric Bond & Share Co. His...
In Chicago Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, board chairman of Sears Roebuck Co. guaranteed the margin accounts of all his employes. Two days later Chicago's public utility tycoon and opera promoter Samuel Insull announced that he would do the same thing. And so did Samuel W. Reyburn, president of Manhattan's...