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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea for the building was conceived by Mr. W. B. Foshay, who has taken his inspiration from the Washington Monument at Washington, D. C. The building, which is a tower, rising from a two-story base, is 447 feet and three inches in height above the street. It is 81 by 87 feet at the base and 59 by 65 feet at the top. It is as far as we know the only commercial building in the World that has sloping sides and where the set back occurs at the second floor placing the building proper away from street noises...
...your issue Aug. 27 page 16 you give Josef Stalin's correct name as "Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili." Will you, if you can, please give the secret of the pronunciation of his name? D. H. JOHNSON
Died. Robert Grain, 63, Maryland politician & corporation lawyer; owner of the largest private estate in Maryland, famed host; of intestinal trouble; in Washington, D...
...Younger Mitchells, the most famed is gay and debonair John J. Mitchell Jr. His marriage to Lolita Armour, meatpacker's heiress, thrilled society in the U. S. & Europe. This Armour connection assumed possible importance when Chicagoans recalled that the name of Philip D. Armour heads the list of directors of the Continental National Bank & Trust Co., whose stock, like that of Illinois Trust, has been skyrocketing. Close are the ties which bind the Armour interests and Continental. President Arthur Reynolds of Continental is also a director and member of the finance committee of Armour...
With Anaconda rose another mighty copperman, John D. Ryan. Copperman Ryan had been store clerk, drummer, oilman. He did business with Marcus Daly, and when Daly died, young Ryan took over his interests. Then Rockefeller-partner Henry H. Rogers invited him to take charge of Amalgamated Copper in Montana, then in the midst of the dispute with Heinze. In 1908, Rogers died and Ryan became president of Amalgamated. In 1910, it merged with Anaconda...