Word: getz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publisher of the Post for 30 years and of the Indiana Star group, let the Post go into receivership, apparently to become a mouthpiece for loud-yawping Mayor William Hale Thompson. The Post had lost money consistently, recently as much as $75,000 a year. Receivers were George Fulmer Getz, millionaire coal dealer, and his partner Charles Fitzmorris, onetime police chief, onetime secretary to Mayor Thompson...
Largest private U. S. zoo, which may also get some of the expedition's catch, is that of George Getz in Holland, Mich. This collection, started in 1916, was opened four years ago to the public. Last year over a million people went to see the Getz animals. William Randolph Hearst has a large private zoo on his ranch in California. Charles Livingston Bull, famed animal artist, used to keep a collection of live wild beasts at his home in Oradell, N. J., for models...
...Manhattan the passing of control in U. S. Distributing to western interests was a notable event. Although chairman of U. S. Distributing Corp. is George Fulmer Getz, Chicago tycoon and elephant owner, it has been always closely associated with New York business. Organizer of U. S. Trucking was the late Banker James J. Riordan. Chairman of the company in 1920-23 was Banker Riordan's great & good friend Alfred Emanuel Smith...