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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five years, Mr. Mead's services lately have been numerous and varied, for the most part in the financial department. He graduated from Harvard with honors in 1887, and after a period of study in Europe, entered a stock broker's office. He then became a member of the firm of F. S. Mead and Company, where he remained for ten years...
...circle of the mathematically learned as a veritable genius for abstruse calculation, and he has long employed that faculty in toying with the difficult problems of aerodynamics. Intrepid, he was the first Frenchman to fly with Wilbur Wright. Since the early days of that adventure he has kept a firm grip upon both the practice and the theory of aeronautics...
Attorney Recht flayed these insinuations: "I am acting, in this instance, for the Credit Bureau of Moscow, a firm sanctioned by the Soviet Government but independent of it. . . . There is no idea of bringing pressure to secure recognition for the Soviet Government. . . . Claims of a similar kind aggregating $40,000,000 are now being filed against U. S. insurance companies by numerous legal firms retained by private citizens of Russia...
...Secretary. Norma Shearer, now an accepted star in the Metro firmament, spends the first part of this picture looking homely and the last part her loveliest. In the homely part she is a stenographer; later she marries one of the firm. The first part is amusing and the second fairly dull, if indeed peering at the gorgeous countenance of Miss Shearer is ever dull...
Every year, on the anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Benkard & Co. present a Shakespearean recital, coached by Edward Fales Coward, onetime dramatic critic for the New York World, now connected with the firm. Broker Benkard is himself an authority on Shakespeare...