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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William ("Noblest Roman of them all") Muldoon, onetime world's champion wrestler, longtime crusader for clean boxing, originator of state boxing inspection, was given a testimonial dinner in Manhattan in honor of his approaching 85th birthday. To it went folk like Elihu Root, Walter Percy Chrysler, Oliver Harriman, Felix Warburg. Toastmaster John McEntee Bowman presented Muldoon a portrait, a bronze bust. Thomas brought back a silver-banded stick which Boxing Champion Heenan had given Muldoon 50 years ago. Muldoon lost the stick in 1880. Darraugh said he had received it in 1890 from the late Sportsman Thomas Gould...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...that its business was sound, that only 4% of U. S. families were affected by the break. Others were Stuart Chase and Irving Fisher, famed economists, Paul Shoup of the Southern Pacific, Bowman Gray of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Luther Blake of Standard Statistics Co., Walter P. Chrysler, Roy A. Hunt of Aluminum Co. of America, Matthew C. Brush, Walter S. Gifford of American Telephone and Telegraph, K. R. Kingsbury of Standard Oil Co. of California. William Wrigley Jr. and John J. Raskob announced that they were buying stocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Faith, Bankers & Panic | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Proud too may President Madden be in the knowledge that among his alumni are: Walter Percy Chrysler (motors); Anthony H. G. Fokker (airplanes); Charles E. Hires (root beer); Roy Wilson Howard (newspapers); President Sewell Lee Avery of U. S. Gypsum Co.; President Ernst Richard Behrend of Hammermill Paper Co.; Treasurer Ezra Hershey (chocolate); President Francis Albert Countway of Lever Bros. Co. (soap); President Stanley L. Metcalf of Better Brushes, Inc.; President R. C. Norberg of Willard Storage Battery Co.; President Henry C. Osborn of American Multigraph Sales Co.; President Stanley Adams Sweet of Sweet-Orr & Co., Inc. (overalls); President George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mail Order President | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...aside from their relation to earnings many stocks sold at a point where their actual yield in dividends was higher than the yield of bonds. The following were typical of stocks which were purchased at a price to yield in dividends between 8% and 10%: Anaconda Copper, Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler, General Foods, General Motors, Kennecott Copper, Sinclair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bankers v. Panic | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Engaged. Bernice, daughter of Walter Percy Chrysler (motors); and Edgar William Garbisch, onetime (1922-24), U. S. Military Academy footballer (all-American) ; at Great Neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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