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Born. To Count & Countess Folke Bernadotte (Estelle Manville, daughter of Board Chairman Hiram Edward Manville of Johns-Manville Corp.); a son; in Pleasantville. N. Y. Name: Count Folke of Wisborg. Their first son, Count Gustav Edward, was born in January...
Again, Ewald. A jury last week dead locked and was dismissed after hearing evidence that George F. Ewald, with the aid of his pretty wife, had bought a magis tracy for $10,000 from Tammany underlings. Twice before had other juries dead locked on this case. Hiram C.Todd, special State prosecutor, agreed to the dismissal of the Ewalds' indictments, on the ground that the juries' failure to agree "fairly represents the present state of the collective conscience of the community in cases of this character." Revived was the old political axiom of New York: A Tammany man cannot be convicted...
...that stock at the outset. He it was who, during a trip west in 1914, gathered together a few associates and formed the company (originally as National Hydro-Carbon Co.) to take over certain oil refining patents of Pennsylvania Inventor Jesse A. Dubbs. In 1916 Promoter Hiram J. Halle was made president. Halle's entire staff consisted of Jesse Dubbs, two assistants, and the two Dubbs sons, Carbon and C. A. No attempts were made to operate with the patents. Chief business was the perfecting of the patents and the attempt to license them to oil companies, toward which...
...Hiram J. Halle...
...attorney and a Tammany man, failed to get an indictment in the Ewald case, public opinion demanded that Governor Roosevelt start an inquiry of his own. So an investigation got under way headed by Republican Attorney General Hamilton Ward of Buffalo, who also wanted to be governor. He named Hiram C. Todd as his special prosecutor. Prosecutor Todd wished to widen his inquiry so that it would cover all New York court officers but found that the State treasury would issue appropriation only for the Ewald case. To assist in the broader investigation, the Citizen's Union raised...