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During the booming 1920's strapping, crisp-haired Charles E. Mitchell enlarged the National City Bank by mergers until, for a short time, it was bigger than the Chase. In 1930 Mr. Wiggin put an end to that by merging the Chase with Equitable Trust in which the Rockefellers were heavy stockholders. Thereafter Mr. Wiggin was no longer the Chase's biggest stockholder*-that title had passed to John D. Rockefeller Jr.-but the Rockefellers were content to leave him in command. At that time Mr. Wiggin ruled a bigger bank than any American before or since...
...Crisp and businesslike is Baron Kumakichi Nakajima, onetime Tokyo stockbroker, now Minister of Commerce & Industry. Last week he ruffled through a sheaf of amazing figures hot from the Japanese Federation of Cotton Textile Manufacturers. They showed what a spunky little Empire can do in two short years to a big, bumbling Empire-the British...
...lower portion of the left lobe of the lung and lacerating the stomach by a spicule of the rib that was blown through its coat; landing the charge, wadding, fire in among the fractured ribs and lacerated muscles and integuments and burning the clothing and flesh to a crisp. I was called to him immediately after the accident. Found a portion of the lung as large as a turkey's egg protruding through the external wound, lacerated and burnt, and below this another protrusion resembling a portion of the stomach, what at first view I could not believe possible...
Before Detroit became the City of Automobiles, horses in its streets were frequently set snorting and rearing by an inventive small boy scudding along in a "sailing wagon." Police stopped that. Last week sedate Massachusetts Institute of Technology proudly revealed that the boy, now a bald, mustached, crisp-mannered man of 47, had accepted an offer to become head of its department of mechanical engineering...
Emphatically President Machado was still Dictator. Only in the person of crisp, calm, young U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles did terrified Cubans see hope of reviving their paralyzed capital. President Roosevelt had sent Mr. Welles to Havana to "mediate" when Machado tyranny became too obvious (TIME, May 15). He was known to be conferring with members of all parties. Army officers had sought...