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...precise, poker-faced operating man. Mr. Grunow was an explosive, moon-faced salesman. Together they ran, in a belligerently unorthodox manner, Grigsby-Grunow Co., makers of Majestic radios and electric iceboxes. Unlike most makers of radios and electric refrigerators, they made money hand over fist. In the clear blue firmament of 1929, Grigsby-Grunow stock was a comet...
...justify it, it might be further altered and enlarged so as to fill a real need. In Harvard, because of its size and disjointed nature, some unifying and stabilizing influence is sorely needed, particularly among those students who have not yet located themselves quite firmly enough in the Cantabrigian firmament. By means of such an influence, the value of an education is enhanced for those who are naturally slow starters; incipient mental troubles may be avoided in some cases; and finally, there is added to the University a source of mature counsel within easy reach of the undergraduate, which...
Into the cinema firmament swam no new star to replace Garbo and Dietrich. Seasoned performers carried on competently rather than brilliantly...
...Olympic Games will see many wonderful bargains in real estate. Visitors to Columbus Circle, marvelous center in busy New York, will see wonderful real estate bargains, too.* It would take man's fastest airplane 3,000 years to reach Stella Bul-Bul, the nearest star in the firmament...
...only in the financial firmament is Samuel Insull a fallen angel. Last week the trustees of the Chicago Opera met for 15 minutes to accept his resignation from their number. Then they announced "definitely but reluctantly" that there would be no Chicago Opera next season. What was needed, they frankly said, was what he had been, a "magnificent angel." Nearest man that Chicago could think of was Banker Charles Gates Dawes who, since his return from England this year and from Reconstruction Finance Corp. in Washington last month, has been thought of by Chicagoans for all sorts of jobs, right...