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...Wheeler, acrid chairman of the Senate committee investigating railroad finance. Fortnight ago the Senator unearthed amid the yellowing records of the Van Sweringen empire and the dust bins of Guaranty Co. history one gem of purest ray serene. This was a memorandum written in 1930 by John Minor Botts Hoxsey, listing expert of the New York Stock Exchange, warning that "public protest" would follow the multiplication of such corporations as the Van Sweringen holding companies, for which Guaranty Co. underwrote and the Stock Exchange approved an ill-fated $30,000,000 bond issue that year (TIME, Jan. 25). Last week...
...Stock Exchange's private files until last week when that institution suddenly swamped him with so much material that he had to adjourn for a week to digest it. Before adjournment, however, he unearthed a memorandum to the Exchange's listing committee from John Minor Botts Hoxsey. its listing expert. Last week the Stock Exchange honored Mr. Hoxsey by making him a full-fledged member of the listing committee, invited him to sit in on meetings of the governing committee. It appeared from his writings, however, that the Exchange could have done worse than elect old Mr. Hoxsey...
...advertiser had a hocus-pocus "cure" for varicose veins. That led enterprising Mr. Baker into the "cancer-cure" business. Receipts from using the "cures" of two other quacks-Harry M. Hoxsey of Muscatine and Charles O. Ozias of Kansas City-started with $1,380 for October 1929. reached $75,232 for June 1930. But the A. M. A.'s weekly Journal (for doctors) and monthly Hygeia (for everybody) began flaying Quack Baker. His receipts dropped until last January they were only $7,008. He lost the license for his broadcasting station KTNT. Iowa enjoined him from practicing medicine without...
...October, 1910, as I recall and his pilot was Arch Hoxsey, of the Wright Brothers aeroplane circus, which was then booking exhibitions about the country. The machine was a Wright biplane with the old type of "warping" wings and two propellers. It had a four cylinder water-cooled engine...