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Founded in 1924 by a Chicago Negro named Anthony Overton, Victory had an uninspiring record until a few years ago when control moved East to New York City's Harlem. Founder Overton, who made a tidy fortune selling cosmetics, bleaching lotions and hair straighteners to his fellow blackamoors, also ran a bank, Chicago's defunct Douglass National, only national bank ever chartered by Negroes. Then regarded as the No. U.S. Negro financier, Overton sluiced a considerable amount of Victory's funds into stock in his ailing bank. Upshot was that Victory lost its licenses in a number...
...stockholders of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. went last week an exhaustive annual report accompanied by an elaborate 40-page booklet prepared in connection with the company's soth anniversary celebration. Westinghouse, Past, Present and Future paid long and deserved homage to Founder George Westinghouse, the prolific Yankee genius who invented the railroad air brake before he was 23, later pioneered in electrical equipment.* Conspicuously missing from the commemorative booklet was the fact that George Westinghouse was ousted from his own company seven years before he died in 1914 at the age of 67. His company's failure during...
...Stuart, founder of Carnation Co., established this herd of pure bred Holsteins over a quarter century ago, and has paid as high as $106,000 for a bull. Other leaders of the industry who get pleasure and relaxation as well as a sense of service to agriculture through their Hoistem breeding efforts are Colonel H. F du Pont of Delaware; Colonel Fred Pabst of Milwaukee-George Rasmussen of National Tea: E. H. Maytag of washing-machine fame: F. E. Murphy of the Minneapolis Tribune; Governor Lowden of Illinois; T.B. Macaulay of the Sun Life in Canada; Ogden Mills, Owen...
Rhodes (Gaumont-British) is the latest in the current series of cinema biographies. Its subject is the great English nationalist, Cecil Rhodes, famed as unifier of South Africa, better known in the U. S. as founder of the Rhodes Scholarships. Though it is solely with the former that this British picture deals, the U. S. need feel no slight, for Walter Huston was taken to England to play the lead in an otherwise all-foreign cast...
...Founder Butler's brothers died not long after the firm was moved in 1879 from Boston to Chicago, where its headquarters have been ever since. Prospering exceedingly, ''E. B." Butler lived until 1928, sinking some of his catalog millions into philanthropies like Jane Addams' Hull House and the Glenwood Manual Training School south of Chicago. He fathered the enabling legislation that promoted Chicago's Lake Front development. But before he died, old "E. B." reluctantly admitted that the cherished catalog that had made him rich could no longer serve as a wholesaler's sole...