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...guarantee and it repaid him his $500,000 cash. Mr. Seiberling and lawyers tried to persuade him to accept interest on his money. He refused. Said he: "Business is business, but friendship is also friendship." Mystic and baron clasped hands. And an "obligation is an obligation" to Reuben H. Donnelley, 63, president of Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. (Chicago publishers of directories) and vice president of R. R. Donnelley & Sons (Chicago printers).** Last week, sick abed in St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, he told a story all but forgotten...
...Some of its more potent members: Thomas E. Donnelley, Chicago printer; George P. Douglas, Minneapolis lawyer; Joseph R. Ensign, Simsbury, Conn., manufacturer; Samuel H. Fisher, Manhattan lawyer; John R. Galt, Hawaiian banker; Edward J. Gavegan, New York Supreme Court Judge; Robert L. Luce, Manhattan lawyer; Edward L. Parsons, San Francisco bishop; Charles C. Paulding, Manhattan railroad lawyer and nephew of Mr. Depew; Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania Governor; Robert Treat Platt, Portland (Ore.) lawyer; James Gamble Rogers, Manhattan architect; Charles H. Sherrill, Manhattan lawyer; George W. Woodruff, Pennsylvania Attorney General...
...various rich men of the city and put in a bid for upwards of $14,000,000. Done. Debenture bonds amounting to $8,000,000 will be floated by Halsey, Stuart & Co. and Kissel, Kinnicutt & Co. Subscribers to the $6,000,000, headed by Mr. Strong, include Reuben H. Donnelley, J. V. Farwell II, Thomas D. Jones, Frank O. Lowden, Joseph E. Otis, James A. Patten, George F. Porter, Julius Rosenwald, Harold Swift, Lucius Teter. Mr. Strong, long active in the business, now controls. So highly is he regarded that when a Chicagoan heard casually at a dinner party that...
David Masson, professor of rhetoric and English literature in the University of Edinburgh, delivered a lecture in that city on Tuesday last, in the course of which he characterized Ignatius Donnelley's Shakespearian cryptogram as miserable drivel and a tissue of arithmetic puzzles which would be hissed at in Bedlam...