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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capital holdings. This does not mean that he has much money to spend. Wilhelm Hohenzollern's wealth consists of: A million and a half acres of land (entailed) worth $120,000,000 Castles, palaces, gardens, worth 20,000,000 Furniture, jewels, works of art, worth 4,000,000 Cash settlement from the German government for confiscated property...
...this money produces an income of only $500,000 a year. The estates are entailed, they cannot be sold. The palaces and jewels produce no income. When income taxes on the cash fund and land taxes on the million acres are paid, a half-million dollars is all that is left. Most important of all this half-million belongs to the ex-Kaiser only as head of the House of Hohenzollern. There are 49 members dependent on the fund, none of whom is willing to give up his share. That leaves some $10,000 per annum for each of them...
...approximately $10,000,000, of which Macy's contributed $7,566,194 and Bamberger's $2,915,375. The two stores will each continue its present staff and policies?Bamberger's, for example, will continue to give charge accounts; Macy's will hold to its 71-year-old cash-only system...
Married. James Cash Penney Jr., son of the chain store tycoon and Prohibition zealot; to Miss Elinor Snyder of Manhattan and Rye, N.Y.; in Manhattan; by Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, president of the International Society of Christian Endeavor, onetime official of the Anti-Saloon League...
...feet can run far. Last week one John Salo, plodding Passaic, N. J., policeman, reached Los Angeles, where he had pegged from Manhattan. His running had not been in vain, for he was winner of C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle's transcontinental bunion derby. In a burst of finishing speed, Runner Salo galloped 26 miles around Wrigley Field, while ten thousand Californians cheered, hooted, whistled. His cross-country time: 526 hr., 57 min., 30 sec. His winning purse...