Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atop Wertheim's department store in Berlin a brand-new Swastika flag flew triumphantly. It was a signal that this Jewish firm was now completely "Aryan." The firm's top men, Jew Georg Wertheim. Jew Fritz Sternberg, had been removed on Government orders...
Died. George Wright, 90, shortstop on the Cincinnati Red Stockings (first all-professional baseball team), founder of the sporting goods firm of Wright & Ditson, establisher of the first golf course in Boston at Franklin Park; in Dorchester, Mass...
Philadelphians know tall, grey Lawyer Scott as the senior partner in the firm of Scott & Burton, a specialist in real-estate practice, the onetime (1907-15) independent Republican floor leader in the Pennsylvania Legislature. His neighbors in Chestnut Hill know him as just the kind of devoted father who takes naturally to doing homework. More than two decades ago Lawyer Scott began answering questions for his daughters Nor (Eleanor), Winkie (Sylvia) and Net (Henrietta), soon extended his advice and counsel to his nephews, Edward and William McKendree Scott Jr. When they were very small, Lawyer Scott taught them to count...
Next afternoon when twelve of the best three-year-olds in the U. S. lined up, the track was firm but the trotters were skittish. Nine times the field failed to get off to a clean start behind Wrestling Promoter Paul Bowser's DeSota, entitled by lot to the pole position in the first heat. Two horses were so unmanageable that the judges had to set down and replace their drivers, Veteran Doc Parshall and Amateur Dunbar Bostwick, trotting enthusiast of the Long Island polo family, who was driving his bay filly, Hollyrood Audrey, in his first Hambletonian...
Died. Frederick Strauss, senior partner in the international banking firm of J. & W. Seligman & Co.; on his 72nd birthday; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...