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With that motto the Morrow Brothers ?cigar stores, washing powder, soap, shoe polish, honey, macaroni, mayonnaise, peanut butter, margarine, pickles, flour, meat, sugar?may be added to the roster of famed self-made business brothers: the two Brothers Behn (Col. Sosthenes and Hernand) masters of I. T. & T.; the two Brothers Giannini (Amadeo Peter and Attilio H.) bankers; the two Brothers Rentschler (Frederick B. and Gordon Sohn) in aviation and aviation financing; the three brothers Starrett (Paul, William Aiken, Ralph) and the two Brothers Chanin (Irwin S. and Henry I.), builders all; the two Brothers Van Sweringen (Mantis James...
...Sosthenes & Hernand Behn, famed Behn Brothers who have brought International Telephone & Telegraph Co. to its present potent state (TIME, April 8), came last week new conquests in a familiar field...
...than 100 points in one year. A year ago, before the Brothers Behn acquired the Mackay telegraph and cable systems (TIME, April 2, 1928), many an executive would have been put to it to explain: 1) What was the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.; and 2 ) Who were Sosthenes and Hernand Behn...
Credit for I.T.&T.'s spectacular rise is given, and properly, to the Brothers Sosthenes and Hernand Behn. French and Danish by ancestry, they were born in the West Indies near the birthplace of Alexander Hamilton. In the last 15 years, they have won enviable war records, become friends and allies of kings, made great fortunes in the company which they dominate, Sosthenes as president, Hernand as executive vice-president...
Perhaps in sympathy. His Most Catholic Majesty, King Alfonso XIII of Spain last week honored Brothers Sosthenes and Hernand Behn, molders of International Tel. and Tel., which operates the Spanish telephones (TIME, April 2). Brothers Behn may now inscribe upon their visiting cards, if they like, this title: Commander of the Royal Order of Isabel the Catholic...