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...modern business structures of Stockholm are Kreuger-built and many are Kreuger-owned. The Construction Period lasted six years; then in 1913, Herr Kreuger entered the match business. At that time the greatest Swedish match company was the Jönköping-Vulcan combination. Herr Kreuger's first step was to unite all the independent match companies into United Swedish Match Factories, Ltd. He then reorganized Kreuger & Toll as a holding company for the match factories, left Herr Toll to look out for the construction end of his business. In 1917, Jönköping-Vulcan...
Atlanta. 50th biggest U. S. bank. Largest bank in 13 Southern States. Largest bank south of Philadelphia. These were the claims to size made by the new First National Bank of Atlanta, Ga. To form the institution last week the Atlanta and Lowry National Bank announced plans to merge with the Fourth National Bank. Combined resources will exceed $140,000,000. Presidents of the merging banks are John K. Ottley and T. K. Glenn, identified with Coca Cola Co. Worcester. In Worcester, Mass., the Worcester County National Bank, The Second National Bank of Barre and the North Brookfield National Bank...
...Institute. Secretary Mellon and his brother telegraphed him the promise of $30,000 for a research fellowship. Adolph Lewisohn, Manhattan banker, telegraphed another $30,000. Near Dr. and Mrs. Wilmer at the dedi cation ceremonies sat Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge, wife of Wilson's first Assistant Secretary of War. She raised the $4,000,000 which financed the Institute, because Dr. Wilmer saved her eyesight six years ago. Lacking the necessary millions herself, she coaxed Dr. Wilmers Negro office servant William to give her a list of rich former patients. There were 338 of them. All - people...
...Four Doctors. Dr. Welch was their first dean at the Medical School. Most of the important pathologists in the U. S. have been his pupils as most of the important teachers of other branches of medicine have been theirs. Well nigh impossible it is to review the many accomplishments of Dr. Welch, to echo the gusto with which he still teaches. Suffice to report that in his doctorate cap and gown he resembles King Henry VIII in jolly mood, that he organized Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (1918), and now its Department of the History of Medicine...
...some surgeons would forego the pomp and circumstances demanded for their regal round of the wards, A remarkable scene was enacted by one Herman Schulenberg, 53, Milwaukee mechanic. Four years ago his cancerous larynx was removed. Last week Joseph Clark Beck, his Chicago surgeon, led him before the Fellows. First the man rasped in a monotone. Then he began to finger his throat, and inflected words ensued: "After I lost my voice I could not bear it-to be a dummy, to talk with my hands. . . . I used to play the organ and knew how you can force air through...