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...Carolina, Mr. Bingham crossed the mountains to Kentucky to seek fame & fortune. He practiced law, served as Mayor of Louisville (1907), sat on the bench, organized long leaf tobacco growers into cooperatives. After his first wife was killed in an automobile accident, he married the widow of Henry Morrison Flagler who made $70,000,000 developing the Florida East Coast. In 1917 she died, leaving Mr. Bingham $5,000,000. The next year he bought the famed Louisville Courier-Journal and the less famed Louisville Times. In his papers he wobbled between the Republican and Democratic parties. In 1928 Hoover...
...wastes of competition. The solution which he saw was combination and he applied himself to the task of making a combination which would make his business secure. The only safety was supremacy. One secret of the Standard Oil was that it was a combination of brains. His associates, Harkness, Flagler, Archbold, Rogers, Payne, Pratt and Whitney were among the shrewdest, most unscrupulous and determined men of business that this country has seen. They get what they wanted. Freight rebates, favorable court decisions, markets, all sorts of advantages were seized upon to keep them in the lead, which they kept...
Died. Cornelius Joseph Sullivan, 62, lawyer, onetime partner of the late De Lancey Nicoll; of pneumonia; in La Quinta, Calif. With Nicoll he represented the (old) American Tobacco Co. when the Federal Government dissolved it for violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Other clients: the Henry M. Flagler estate, James A. Stillman, Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, the New York Giants...
Kent-Stroke, Perry; 7, MacIntosh; 6, Littell; 5, Flagler; 4, Peterkin; 3, Butterworth; 2, Blair; Bow, Kennedy; Cox, Tompkins...
Grounded by fog at Flagler Beach, Fla., Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh declined an invitation of John Davison Rockefeller to attend church...