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...admired the romantic novels of Ouida, took over the planning of it, turned it into a huge mass of towers, gables, and steeples, with a dining room to seat 60 guests, a bedroom inlaid with ivory, ebony and semiprecious stones. Hopkins died before it was finished. Leaning on his hoe, he used to stare at it skeptically and ask reporters if they thought it would pay dividends...
Cotton is planted in rows some three feet apart and when the plants are a few inches high they have to be thinned out into hills about twelve inches apart, two or three plants to a hill. Because it has always been done by hand labor with a hoe, this thinning is called "chopping." From April to June every year the South's cotton fields are full of an army of choppers, each doing about an acre a day. In 1920 a San Antonio jack-of-all-trades named Ellis Albaugh visited his brother-in-law at Seguin...
...controlling interest and has given new stock to as many of the original company's stockholders as he could find. This week he and his wife were the guests of Manhattan's Commodity Club, which paid their expenses from Texas to hear them describe their "rubber-tired hoe with a seat...
...financing soon got too big for the firm to handle and went to J. P. Morgan & Co., but E. B. Smith enjoyed the reflected glory and a fat slice of every I. T. & T. deal. Some of its other flotations like Roosevelt Field, Inc. and R. Hoe & Co. added nothing to its name, but E. B. Smith managed to avoid the subsequent attention lavished by the Senate Banking & Currency Committee on most of its peers...
...Angeles had ever had, but the biggest. Some of the numerous masterpieces on view were lent by Connoisseurs Marion Davies, Sam Katz and Edward G. Robinson. Gilt-edged treasures included: two Titians, three Tintorettos, two Rembrandts, four Reynolds, such old favorites as Millet's Man With a Hoe, such modern equivalents of September Morn as Duchamp's Nude Descending the Stairs. So great a glut of masterpieces overtaxed the capacity of the Art Association's gallery (an annex to the Town House on Wilshire Boulevard, originally built for San Francisco's Gumps). The pictures have...