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John Daniel Hertz, Albert Davis Lasker and William Wrigley Jr. were elected to the board of Paramount Publix Corp. Mr. Hertz, retired founder of Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, will be chairman of the finance committee. Asked whether he had a financial interest in Paramount, Gumman Wrigley last week exulted: "I've been buying Paramount Publix stock for a long time, and I intend to buy a lot more. Just this morning I bought 5,000 shares. I don't know exactly how much...
...everything figured out; all preparations made. Evening before the attempt, between dances at the cabaret. Hoff has a conversation with a man who looks so much like Hoff he might be his brother. They go home, spend the evening together. The man turns out to be David Hertz, once a front-page figure when he was acquitted for the murder of his wife. They understand each other; Hertz almost confesses what he has done, Hoff what he is about...
...Prime Minister, makes a clean getaway, but decides not to escape to Switzerland, to stay in Berlin instead. Then his frozen will begins to thaw. To his horror he begins to realize he has murdered a man who was not his enemy, who should have been his friend. Hertz, made of weaker stuff than Hoff, tries to persuade him to do as he himself has done: to compromise, to live with unlaid ghosts. When Hertz sees that Hoff is determined to give himself up, he shoots himself. By the time Hoff gets to the police his brain has begun...
...never been a major sport in Chicago. Of recent years it has been played by scattered groups each dominated by the man who owned the field-domineering Col. Robert Rutherford (Chicago Tribune] McCormick at Catigny Farm, ambitious Paul Butler (paper) at Oak Brook (he has eight fields), successful John Hertz (taxicabs) at Leona Farms, and A. C. Barger at North Shore...
Last Saturday morning the Foreman officers realized the frozen condition of many of their real estate loans had impaired the banks' liquidity, that disaster was near. The directors, including Albert Davis Lasker, William Wrigley Jr., John Daniel Hertz, and members of the Foreman family, raised sufficient funds to tide the bank through the day. An appeal was then made to other Chicago bankers...