Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After college he went to the Philippines, where he organized anil financed cocoanut oil mills (Philippine Refining Corp.). During the War, Hamilton products sold well, the Hamilton fortune mightily increased. Returning to the U. S., he lived quietly in Great Neck, L. I. Sir Joseph Duveen and others were commissioned to start an Italian collection for the Hamilton home. They bought paintings by Veneziano, dei-Conti, Francia, Perugino, Melzi, Desiderio, Botticelli. Titian. The Hamilton home became a Renaissance rarity, authentic in painting, sculpture, tapestry, velvet, bric-a-brac. When it proved too small to hold the collections, Collector Hamilton moved...
Nibley, daughter of U. S. Senator Reed Smoot of Nevada; on the ground of men tal cruelty; in Long Beach. Elected. Myron Charles Taylor, Manhattan capitalist (banks, railroads, insurance), finance committee chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.; to be a director of the Metropolitan Opera Company, succeeding the late Manhattan capitalist Ogden Mills. Reelected. John Jacob Raskob of Wilmington, Del., chairman of the Democratic National Committee, as a member of the finance committee of General Motors Corp.* Donaldson Brown of Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y., was appointed to succeed Mr. Raskob as finance committee chairman. Died. Marjorie Cassidy Baer...
...Even today perhaps the "new" traders are not particularly familiar with Stockbroker Ungerleider. Yet a potent brokerage establishment is Samuel Ungerleider & Co., with its home office at No. 50 Broadway and branches throughout the Middle West. And when, last week, "Ohio Sam" an nounced the formation of Ungerleider Financial Corp., a general investment trust, the potent names of William Fox, head of Fox Films, David Bernstein, treasurer of Loew's, Inc. (Fox subsidiary), William Crapo Durant, motor-and market-man, and Louis S. Posner, of Jonas & Neuburger, attorneys,* were among those associated in the enterprise...
Like twelve fat vegetables in a soup plate, twelve great balloons nestled in Pitt Stadium at Pittsburgh. The evening light was fading as the first bag, piloted by W. A. Klikoff and Pete Lawson representing Aircraft Development Corp., slowly rose into the air and, once above the rim of the stadium, swam rapidly away in a brisk westerly wind. One after another the rest of the bags rose and floated away...
...handing you herewith check . . . for $2,781,158.30 . . . to repay in full to date with interest your investment in the securities of the Brooklyn Publishing Corp. [which controls the stock of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle], the Albany Press Co. (The Knickerbocker Press, Albany Evening News) and the Ithaca Journal-News...