Word: daniells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corp. The directorates of these new invest ment trusts each represent a distinct "set" in Chicago finance. One represents the Loop.* the other the North Shore; one represents a self-made generation, the other a second generation of inherited wealth and social prominence. Loop Team (Manhattan-Dearborn Corp.) John Daniel Hertz, Austrian born, "re tired" at 50, is the man who brought the Yellow Cab to Chicago and collected a fortune from its clicking meters. Once he wrote about sportsmen for the Chicago Record (extinct). Now he is himself a sportsman (chiefly horses) and winters in a cream-colored house...
Near Coon Butte, Ariz., is a mysterious pit nearly a mile in diameter called Meteor Crater (TIME, March 25). Last week miners hired by Philadelphia's Daniel Moreau Barringer said that at 1,400 ft. depth they had found the main body of the meteor which made the pit. Drill- ings show 90% iron, 7% nickel, traces of iridium and platinum...
...Negro named Zeke turns preacher and converts the girl, Chick, who got him in the game. She beats up his rival with a poker, saying. "Ain't no one goin' to stand in my path to glory." This is the best line in Hallelujah, but Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes) has other good ones in the sermon in which, dressed as a locomotive engineer, he describes the cannonball express to hell. Sometimes local color dams up the story, but mostly, in spite of the temptation of spirituals, it is under control. Vidor's skill as a picturemaker...
Died. John Bennett Daniel, 29, of Manhattan, National Broadcasting Co. announcer, introducer of many a famed speaker (President Hoover and Coolidge), describer of many a famed event (Lindbergh reception, Graf Zeppelin arrivals at Lakehurst, inaugurations); in Manhattan...
...executive, in 1912 gathered a group of learned men about him to dispense information. He called the group the Mentor Association and the dispensing medium, then hardly more than a pamphlet, The Mentor. In the group were such specialists as the late great Luther Burbank (plants), Augustus Thomas (plays), Daniel Carter Beard (outdoor life), Roger M. Babson (figures), Fritz Kreisler (music). Like its organizers, The Mentor itself was a specialist, devoted each issue to a single topic...