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...Declaring that distillers were gouging the public, Representative John Joseph Cochran of St. Louis, where Cozy Corner used to sell for 98? a quart, indignantly announced: "Seven dollars a quart for whiskey, no matter how old, is outrageous! Chemists of the Bureau of Industrial Alcohol advise me that the best whiskey available today did not cost more than 50? a gallon to make." He advised a drinkers' strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: Prices | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...syndicate which they headed, who then publicly marketed new Dodge Brothers securities which securities were among those more actively traded in on the New York Stock Exchange for several years before control passed to Chrysler. THOMAS D. SMITH Watch Hill, R. I. Bidding against Thomas Cochran of J. P. Morgan & Co., Clarence Dillon formed a syndicate of several hundred individuals and banks, bought Dodge from the Dodge heirs for $146,000,000, the largest cash transaction in Wall Street history. In 1928, three years later, having operated Dodge at a profit of $40,000,000, the Dillon, Read Syndicate sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 18, 1933 | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

Alleghany Corp. Standard Brands J. P. Morgan 40,000 28,750 Thomas W. Lament 18,000 20,000 Thomas Cochran 15,000 25,000 George Whitney 14,000 50,000 Charles Steele 14,000 5,000 P. C. Leffingwell 13,500 10,000 F. D. Bartow 11,500 11,000 A. M. Anderson 11,500 10,000 William Ewing 10,000 10,000 Harold Stanley 10,000 9,970 Junius S. Morgan Jr. 8,000 Edward Hopkinson Jr. 4,500 Henry S. Morgan 4,100 1,000 T. Newhall 4,000 F. T. Stotesbury 4,000 H. G. Lloyd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Now It Is Told | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...cartoon entitled "The Light of Asia." It showed a brawny fist, labeled Japan, clutching a crumpled sheaf of papers which blazed like a torch. It was marked: "Nine Power Treaty- Kellogg Pact." Cartoonist Talburt, one-time Toledo soda-jerker, is a Scripps-Howard ace. Oldtime Editor Negley D. Cochran who developed him says: "Some of us write editorials and are called editors; Talburt draws editorials and is called a cartoonist." The 1932 Pulitzer Prize for books on U. S. themes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pulitzer Prizes | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...Penny Opera (words & music by Bert Brecht & Kurt Weill; John Krimsky $ Gifford Cochran, producers). The pedigree of this tatterdemalion opera bouffe is long and diffuse. From the 200-year-old John Gay libretto, Messrs Brecht & Weill made a modern German adaptation. It became a cinema and an operetta called Die Dreigroschenoper. These played about the European capitals with marked success. Then Messrs Krimsky & Cochran anglicized the operetta, first naming their production The Beggar's Opera, then The Three-Pence Opera, then The 3-Penny Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 24, 1933 | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

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