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...staff of Pan American it was pure news. To youthful President Juan Terry Trippe it was a headache. He did not want his plan known so soon. Closeted in his office on the 42nd floor of the Chanin Building, President Trippe reluctantly admitted that negotiations were "now practically completed, looking towards the early operation of a service . . . between Bermuda and the U. S." Of the route east of Bermuda he had nothing to say. But Major G. E. Woods Humphery, managing director of Imperial Airways, who arrived from England a few days later, promptly dismissed any notion that it could...
Died. Simon William Straus, 63, Manhattan banker, chairman of S. W. Straus & Co. (Manhattan financiers), Chicago's Franklin Trust & Savings Bank, the American Society for Thrift, financial backer of Manhattan's Chanin and Chrysler buildings; after long illness, of anemia, at his home in Manhattan...
Deaf & Blind. In a theatre on the 50th floor of the Chanin Building, Manhattan, 100 people, some totally blind, some deaf, sat in their seats while Bulldog Drummond was projected on the screen and played on the recording machine. The deaf "listened" through special earphones; a lecturer with a cultured voice explained the action to the blind. The deaf got the most excited, the blind laughed most at funny parts; all applauded at the end, then went home to their respective silence, darkness...
...Brothers Behn (Col. Sosthenes and Hernand) masters of I. T. & T.; the two Brothers Giannini (Amadeo Peter and Attilio H.) bankers; the two Brothers Rentschler (Frederick B. and Gordon Sohn) in aviation and aviation financing; the three brothers Starrett (Paul, William Aiken, Ralph) and the two Brothers Chanin (Irwin S. and Henry I.), builders all; the two Brothers Van Sweringen (Mantis James and Oris Paxton). railroaders; the seven Brothers Fisher (Charles T., Fred J., Lawrence P., Edward P., William A., Albert J., Howard), whose bodies are famous; the three Brothers Warner (Harry, Albert, Jack?the fourth. Sam, died...
...world's great monuments of architecture are reared in the U. S. It was inevitable that sooner or later the French would be driven by their imagination to take a hand in the game. Last week it happened. The French Government, in combination with Builder Irwin S. Chanin and Banker Simon William Straus, dramatically revealed a $50,000,000 Gallic dream...