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Society for Advancement of Science he made what was considered a daring speech indeed. To have praised live Jew Albert Einstein would have been madness, but he did praise dead Jew Heinrich Hertz, discoverer of "Hertzian waves." And bold Max Planck said: "History proves that the greatest and most vital discoveries were made by scientists who worked for the sake of pure science only...
...father the late Joseph Byfield he inherited the Hotel Sherman Co. (Ambassador East, Ambassador West, the Sherman, the Fort Dearborn) and its subsidiary, College Inn Food Products Co., which the elder Byfield had started to can foods prepared by restaurant chefs. In 1927 while visiting John ("Yellow Cab") Hertz in Miami, Ernest Byfield liked the taste of a glass of tomato juice he was given. He immediately put his chefs at the Hotel Sherman to mixing tomato juice formulas. College Inn tomato juice cocktail appeared in the autumn of 1928. Prior to that there were at least three tomato juices...
...John Daniel Hertz is keen, amiable, modest but, in a business tussle, a ferocious fighter. It bothers him not a whit that on a polo field in his heavy tortoise-shell spectacles, with his helmet snugly strapped under his big chin, and seated in a curious grey, woolly saddle, he cuts a strange figure. When he misses a shot, which is often, he always shouts...
...John Hertz started to retire after he sold his Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. in 1925 to General Motors. He gave more time to his race horses, turned down a $1,000,000 offer for Reigh Count, his Kentucky Derby winner, remarking: "I think any fellow who would pay a million for a horse ought to have his head examined, and the fellow who turned it down must be absolutely unbalanced." But his thick, sinewy figure continued to be a familiar sight wherever Chicago deals were done. In 1931 Kuhn, Loeb & Co. called him in to help with their ailing Paramount...
...first four decades of his life John Hertz never thought of retiring. Austrian-born Jew, he was brought to the U. S. as a child, ran away from home after a spanking. He became a copy-boy in a newspaper office (Chicago Daily News), learned to spell well enough to do police reporting and finally rose to be assistant sports editor. When his newspaper was merged, he started to sell automobiles. He sold them so fast that the trade-ins piled up into a nightmare. Then he hit on the idea of painting his used cars and sending them...