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...Vesey St., Manhattan. There in one corner is the famed auction block of Adrian H. Muller & Son which for a fee will sell anyone's securities. Both Mr. Muller and his son are dead, and the firm today is run by Miss Helen M. Collins, fortyish and efficient. One afternoon last week Miss Collins held the most spectacular auction in U. S. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Empire Sold | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

Engaged. Lorenz Iversen, sixtyish, Danish-born president of Pittsburgh's moneymaking Mesta Machine Co. (TIME, March 4), widower, father of five; and one Fleda Foust, fortyish, of Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 9, 1935 | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

Appointed. Mrs. Adena Miller Rich, fortyish, longtime resident social worker at Chicago's Hull House, onetime secretary to its late great founder Jane Addams: to succeed Jane Addams as the institution's head resident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 26, 1935 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

...taxpayers, liberal to veterans, possible to the Treasury. Senator Harrison did not try to concoct anything so difficult out of his own head. He went to the Veterans' Administration, got its best wizard with figures to do the job. Assistant Administrator Harold Walker Breining is a fat, fortyish actuary who, since 1917, when he went overseas in field service for the Division of War Risk Insurance, has been making statistical tables dance jigs for the Government. Mr. Breining found a way to calculate interest on the Bonus starting from 1918 instead of 1925 and still let the Treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Bid & Ask | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

Married. Helen Hall, fortyish, director of Manhattan's Henry Street Settlement, president of the National Federation of Settlements; and Paul Underwood Kellogg, 55, editor of The Survey and The Survey Graphic; in Jersey City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 11, 1935 | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

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