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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total of 29,704 compared to 28,805 in the 15th edition. Notable are inclusions and exclusions of the 16th edition. Included, for example, are Jackie Coogan, Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., many a newly famed industrialist. Not included are Greta Garbo, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, Tobacconist George Washington Hill. The preface explains that in 1900 Who's Who listed one in about 8,000 of the general populace. Now it lists one in about 4,000. Statistics would therefore argue that some day (specifically, in the year 2290) the Personages of the U. S. will overtake...
...rather than fiscal importance was last week's tax news at the White House and the Treasury. Congress, at President Hoover's order, cut the normal income tax rate by 1% for 1929 to bolster business. Business did not respond to the cut. Federal receipts ran down hill. Last week Treasury officials compiled figures, frankly told Pressmen that they were quite helpless about a continuation of the 1% reduction for 1930 incomes. For the first 50 days of this fiscal year, U. S. revenue had fallen off $64,261,211 compared with last year, while expenditures had risen...
...Oilman Julian, enriched by success in California's Signal Hill Oilfield, organized Julian Petroleum Corp., did much expanding, sold much stock. His ways of selling stock angered bankers. His ways of selling his products angered other companies. In 1924 he was glad to sell out for about $500,000. Three years later the Great Julian Scandal came, made police reserves necessary. Oilman Julian had no connection with the scandal, but it fixed his name in western minds. About a year ago he arrived in Okla homa City, said he would "come back." He proceeded to sell stock in Julian...
Career. Lord Dawson is reputedly the only peer who has succeeded in keeping his age out of the register of the British peerage. This deliberate obscuring of his biography is the only flaw in this otherwise impeccable nobleman. However: he was born March 9, 1864, at Duppas Hill, Croydon, Surrey, England, to Henry Dawson, an architect of sufficient contemporary repute to be elected a fellow of the Royal Institute of Architects. His mother was one Frances Emily Wheeler. Somewhat more than 40 years ago the then Bertrand Dawson was a comparatively poor but comparatively elegant medical student in London. Among...
...fortnight the shotguns that the Scotch call "double pipe scatter guns" had been popping on the moors. King George was there to get a little shooting before seeing his new granddaughter (see p. 21). John Pierpont Morgan was at Gannochy Lodge and Clarence Hungerford Mackay at Hunt-hill, Brechin. Bernard Baruch could not stay but Silkman Emil Stehli and Charles Steele of the House of Morgan were shooting. Other U. S. gunners-Broker Andre Pillot, Banker Edward Shearson, Red D Line's Frederic Dallet-were talking about their first week's bags. Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes left...