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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rosen's work at that time in instructing Russians how to farm efficiently and rotate their crops came the founding of Agro-Joint, at his suggestion, with the financial support of a parent board, the so-called J. D. C. or "Joint Distribution Committee" (of the U. S.) which is now chairmanned by famed Felix M. Warburg, Manhattan banking tycoon...
...Dorothy Thompson has now reached the U. S. in its entirety and appeared in the papers which she serves. No sooner was it off the press, however, than a similar report was issued in book form* by famed Ivy Ledbetter Lee, suave discerning public relations counsel to the John D. Rockefellers, père et fils. Mr. Lee's visit to Moscow antedated that of Miss Thompson by only a few months. Of remarkable significance is the fact neither has written anything of Soviet Russia which contradicts the other...
...Gardner D. Stout, third generation member of the Stock Exchange, paid $335,000 for his seat. Grandfather Joseph S. Stout paid $5,000 for his seat in 1872, four years after seats became salable. In 1871 a seat went for $2,750. Four Stouts have been members, Joseph S. from 1872 to 1904, Andrew Varick from 1899 until 1017, and his two sons Gardner D. and Andrew Varick Jr., now members...
...international communication the U. S. ought to be supreme." So said Electric Tycoon Owen D. Young last week. At the same time came news of a British merger, to control more than half of all the miles of cables in the world. But also last week, a great U. S. communication merger took place and the U. S. public was invited to inspect a new power in U. S. business. His name is Sosthenes Behn...
...Thomas, Danish West Indies (now the Virgin Islands, U. S. territory). His first name is the Greek for "life-strength." By his own efforts, he is a naturalized American. A touch of World War heroism becomes his dark, tall, military bearing-he was a lieutenant colonel, won the D. S. M., was a member of the Legion of Honor. He started by electrifying Porto Rico's wilderness, then Cuba's, Mexico's, Chile's. These were telephone operations, at first, but soon branched into telegraph, cable and wireless communications. The Caribbean master-communicator got the house...