Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fascists snapped to attention last week, carried out curt orders in haste. Il Duce's logical and ruthless spirit was astir. Before the week was out he haded has "an Augustan conception of grandeur." 3) Decreed, to the discomfiture of Fascismo's capitalist well-wishers, that every merchant in Italy must display both the wholesale and retail price of his goods, and must throw open his books to the Government, which will permit him to make no more than what it considers a fair profit. 4) Inaugurated a tax on bachelors, the proceeds of which will be devoted...
Married. Fifi Widener Leidy, 23, daughter of Joseph E. Widener (Philadelphia capitalist-philanthropist-art patron); to one Milton C. Holden, 35; in Philadelphia. Early this year she divorced her first husband, Carter Leidy, with whom she eloped when...
Married. Frances Lehman, daughter of Arthur Lehman (banker-realtor) granddaughter of Adolph Lewisohn (capitalist-philanthropist); to John L. Loeb, son of Carl M. Loeb (President, American Metal Co.); in Manhattan, at the home of Mr. Lewisohn...
Adolph Lewisohn, German-born Manhattan capitalist: "I provided my home last week for a meeting of the Westchester County Committee of the New York State Charities Aid Association and heard Sociologist Edmund Cogswell scold bankers and insurance men for saying that the great majority of aged people are dependent on relatives or charity. An extensive investigation which he made in Massachusetts showed that less than 40% were dependent. It showed, too, that every 100 self-reliant sexagenarians have 260 children, while every 100 almshouse inmates have only 62. The association elected me president...
Radio. The Federal Telegraph Co. of California (formed in 1911) and the Brandes Products Corp. of the U. S., Canada and England (formed in 1908) merged as Federal-Brandes Inc., $10,000,000 concern. California Capitalist Rudolph Spreckels is chairman, Ellery W. Stone, president. They will continue to make radio equipment...