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Died. Clendenin J. Ryan, 56, son of Capitalist Thomas Fortune Ryan; by his own hand (gas); in Manhattan. Capable executor of his father's $135,000,000 estate, of which he and Brother. John Barry got ample shares and Brother Allan a pair of shirt studs, he was active in finance until the last despite diabetes which reduced his six-foot-two frame from...
...half years ago when the late Capitalist Andrew William Mellon made his last grandiose gesture and presented the nation not only with a fabulous collection of art works but money and plans for a National Gallery worthy of housing them in Washington, he expressed the hope that it would "attract other gifts from other citizens who may in the future desire to contribute works of art of the highest quality to form a great national collection." First notable collector to live up to Andy Mellon's expectations is 5-10-25? Storeman Samuel Henry Kress, who last week came...
Long an outspoken opponent of the nonunion policy of the Colorado coal field, she got ready to fight it. Within a few months she bought the interest of Denver Capitalist Horace Bennett and gained control of $10,000,000 R. M. F. Then to Josephine Roche's office was summoned Rocky Mountain Fuel's general counsel, the late progressive U. S. Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan. To Senator Costigan went leaders of Colorado's struggling mine unions. Late in the summer of 1928 they signed a famed document: the first mine union contract in Colorado's history...
...dismissed from Rensselaer's faculty, Mr. Jarrett said: "We adhere to an unwritten regulation of long standing that there shall be excluded from our classrooms all controversial discussions about politics, religion and sociology. Time devoted to such subjects . . . is . . .lost time. . . . We have developed and prospered under the capitalist regime. The men we have sent forth and who have become industrial leaders-have . . . richly endowed us. ... If we are condemned as the last refuge of conservatism, let us glory...
...Thompson whipped up the first submachine gun, they knew they had something. By the time Commander Blish died in 1926, Brigadier General Thompson, full of honors from long service, had long since retired from the army to become chief advisory engineer of Auto-Ordnance Co. Chief financial backers were Capitalist Thomas Fortune Ryan, who held 51% of the stock, and George Harvey, who held a smaller block. Onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Harvey went to his grave soft-pedaling his interest in the company which sold 750 choppers to the Irish Republic, to be used...