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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nash, "millionaire Omaha grandmother," octogenarian widow of the late President Nash of the American Smelting & Mining Co., had been campaigning for Smith throughout Nebraska all summer. Four days before election she entrained for Manhattan to be Governor Smith's guest and "get the full benefit of that thrill" on Election Day. Near Elgin, Ill., her traveling companion looked into Mrs. Nash's berth, found her dead. A sticklesome legal question arose: could Mrs. Nash's absentee vote be counted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Politicules | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...most of the wood pulp for Canadian and U. S. news organs, magazines, books. Ostensibly Sir Richard is perfectly willing that the Labrador forests should be transferred to the Dominion of Canada-for a sufficiently stiff price. But the exceedingly harmonious relations existing between him and the International Paper Co. with headquarters in Manhattan suggest that Sir Richard thinks a stiffer price can be got from Wall Street. The blatant nonsense about merging Newfoundland with the U. S. is probably a mere advance guard of publicity to prepare Newfoundlanders for U. S. dollar penetration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWFOUNDLAND: Prosperity! | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...usually for one of these reasons: 1) he is old, stockholders demand younger blood; 2) he is inefficient, stockholders demand bigger returns; 3) he is dishonest, stockholders demand integrity; 4) he is unwanted, there has been a merger. But when Fred W. Ramsey, president of the Cleveland Metal Products Co. resigned six years ago he was neither 1) old, his age was 42; 2) inefficient, he had helped his concern to succeed; 3) dishonest, nor 4) unwanted. Having succeeded in business, during a quarter-century of sedulous attention to it, he is now free to go the remaining steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mott to Ramsey | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Canadian-born Fred W. Ramsey began as stockroom boy with the Perfection Stove Co. (subsequently absorbed by the Cleveland Metal Products Co.). Then in his mid-teens, he joined the Cleveland Y. M. C. A. and soon became, in sequential progression, star Boarder, among other things. At one point during his religio-business career he was about to leave business to become a "Y" secretary, but a factory manager died, Ramsey took the job of expanding the plant. As a director of the potent Cleveland Trust Co., onetime president of the Cleveland Aluminum Rolling Mills Co., Cleveland Foundry Co., financial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mott to Ramsey | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Died. Howard E. Wurlitzer, 57, band instrument tycoon of Cincinnati, son of the late Rudolph Wurlitzer, who founded the Wurlitzer Co.; of influenza; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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