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...socialite Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, sparring partner (as a stunt) of Heavyweight Tommy Loughran, good friend of Joseph Hergesheimer, vice president of Peerless Motor Co., published a book about current economic evils called The Voice of Young America (Scribner- $1.00). Said he: "I'm not a radical like Corliss Lamont. I'm a capitalist, but not their kind. I can see a lot more peril from the right wingers than from the left. I don't condemn people who have earned their wealth by giving something in return. Henry Ford is one of those. But I call...
...prospering in the early 1840's, even built a steam engine more memorable for its size than its efficiency. Ten years later they sold to Baltimore & Ohio R. R. the first locomotive built west of the Alleghenies. But not until they obtained the rights to manufacture the famed Corliss stationary steam engine did Charles and Elias Cooper hit their stride. Some of their early Corliss engines are still turning over. In 1929 the company was merged with Bessemer Gas Engine Co. and Hope Forge Co. as $11,000,000 Cooper-Bessemer Corp., makers of marine Diesels, oil & gas pipeline...
Despite such chaos in ruble values the Soviet State Bank can boast that its bonds are endorsed by the second son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament. Son Corliss does not belong to the Communist Party, calls himself a "critical Communist sympathizer," has an extremely pretty wife who is a member of the Socialist Party. Last summer they toured Russia. Last week critical Corliss told a meeting of 500 Manhattan radicals to "Buy Soviet 10% bonds! They are the safest bonds on the market today. . . . The once stupid Russian peasant louts are now replaced by as intelligent a people...
...group of White House callers who did not see the President last week consisted of nine socialite women from New York and Chicago petitioning for the "constitutional rights" of the oncoming hunger marchers (see p. 10). Included in the delegation were Mrs. Corliss Lament, daughter-in-law of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont, New York's Mrs. William Osgood Field Jr., Chicago's colorful Mrs. Polly Chase Boyden. Secretary Joslin met them, told them they could not see the President. "Who made that decision?" asked Mrs. Field. "I did," replied Secretary Joslin. "Is this the usual procedure...
...York Committee headed by John Don Passos, has enrolled such prominent figures in both literary and social service work as: Sherwood Anderson, Floyd Dell, Babette Deutch, Waldo Frank, Corliss Lamont, Lewis Mumford, John Cowper Powys, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Genevieve Taggard...