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...buying the Cleveland News, Republican evening paper owned by Daniel. Carl & Mark Hanna, grandsons of the late great President-maker who founded it as a political mouthpiece. Reports lately got about concerning a merger between the News and Plain Dealer, owned by socialite descendants of the late Liberty E. Holden. prospector, hotelman and publisher. Last week the merger rumors were confirmed by the formation of Forest City* Publishing Co., capitalized...
...talk about. Pretty Courtesan Ellen Jewett was found strangled in her room. Circumstantial evidence glared at one Robinson, young man-about-town. Editor James Gordon Bennett himself covered the story for his New York Herald. Author Komroff, changing the names of his protagonists to Oliver Benson and Jane Holden, follows closely the history of the case, but takes it further, deeper than Editor Bennett did. Jane, like many a storybook harlot, was pathological only in having a heart of gold. She gave Benson her true love. For a while he liked it. Unfortunately he was a black-hearted villain, with...
...Pacific was forced to sell its stock control in Southern Pacific, but S. P. maintained the regional plan. Last week these two great shoes of the late great Harriman were shuffled. Southern Pacific, the left shoe, was returned from regional management to one-man control under tall, taciturn Hale Holden. Union Pacific, the right shoe, was given over to the late great Harriman's son, William Averell Harri man, now 40 and ready to undertake his greatest heritage...
...headed by Hale Hol den. oldtime chief of the Burlington, whose son is Pullman Inc.'s eastern vice president. By last week's changes Mr. McDonald becomes president of the company, making him operating chief of all its transportation routes. He will be responsible to Hale Holden, for whom is created the new position of company chairman. President Shoup is shifted to vice chairman, likewise under Chairman Holden. In railroad circles this shift was not regarded as a complete sidetracking of slim, grizzled Paul Shoup, 58. He will move from San Francisco to Manhattan, devote his time...
...Hale Holden, chairman...