Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...F. SILVERS Elizabeth...
...secretary-treasurer of the Bankers Trust (Lament: "All my business life I have been borrowing money. I don't know how to loan it." Davison: "That's why we want you. We want a man who knows how the borrower feels and looks."); why George F. Baker summoned him five years later, to be vice president and director of the First National Bank, succeeding the same Davison; why J. P. Morgan gave him the banking accolade of a Morgan partnership in 1911. All his life, he has been a known quantity; his assets have been realizable...
Simmons Co. The Simmons Co. (beds) purchased (price unrevealed) the B. F. Huntley Furniture Co. (two factories in Winston-Salem, N. C., lumber factory and mill in South Carolina). Expressing confidence in U. S. prosperity President Zalmon Gilbert Simmons said: ". . . we believe that everybody will have to sleep just as much in 1930 as they...
Grand-Silver. Southern and Midwest nickels, dimes, quarters often went to the F. & W. Grand 5-to-25 Cent Stores. Sometimes too they were spent at the Isaac Silver & Brothers Stores (5-to-$1.00). If any Southerner or Midwesterner were ever in doubt as to which of the chain stores he would rather patronize, that difficulty was removed last week when the two merged. Their combined gross business last year: $31,000,000; combined number of stores: 140. There are 554 Kresge stores, 1,802 Woolworth...
...Modiglianis were pompously hung and framed. Well-tailored attendants mingled with the visitors, distributed lavish programs. The lenders of the canvases to the exhibition included Editor Frank Crowninshield of smartchart Vanity Fair, Businessman-Collector Chester Dale, Dealers Paul Reinhardt and John F. Kraushaar, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn. They gave an aura of respectability to the exhibition which might have amused the little, consumptive painter. People who would not have been seen talking with him now pay $20,000 for his canvases, eulogize him over their teacups as a great genius. For in his day Modigliani was the butt of ribaldry...