Word: inc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...furnished "confidential letters" and "inside information" to those whose ignorance about Washington was matched only by their curiosity concerning Capital affairs. From his office in the National Press Building, James True has of late been operating two obscure enterprises known as James True Associates and America First, Inc., whose main activity is the distribution of inflammatory anti-Semitic literature. Last week this little-known pamphleteer popped into the news when he inadvertently furnished a Leftist weekly with one of its most astounding stories...
...Elsie de Wolfe Inc., international interior decorators, rushed out last week photographs of their Lady Mendl (nee de Wolfe) standing beside King Edward's private plane, but the story got ahead of them, grew bigger than their publicity. They wanted only to point out that Lady Mendl, after decorating the flat of the King's Mrs. Simpson, was recently brought from Paris in the King's plane to lunch with His Majesty at Sunningdale and there commissioned to decorate this rural snuggery. 27 miles from London. Last week the taste of U. S.-born Mrs. Simpson...
...leading makers of stringed instruments is Kalamazoo's Gibson, Inc., which used to mean mandolins to many a high-school boy and girl. Gibson reports that guitars now account for 95% of its sales, compared to 5% before Depression. Another leading stringed instrument maker is C. F. Martin & Co., which is not to be confused with the Elkhart band instrument company. President is C. Frederick Martin IV, a suave, blond young man who is also president of National Association of Musical Merchandise Manufacturers. Says he: "My family has been in the business 90 years. . . . Americans as a class...
...Utilities Power & Light Corp. Promoter Clarke had picked them up in the 1920's while he was pyramiding his $400,000,000 holding company. In the field of financial pyramiding Promoter Clarke was an architect with considerable imagination. He it was who piled his General Theatres Equipment, Inc. on top of Fox Film early in Depression, a heroic achievement which cost Chase National Bank many a million, sent two members of the New York Stock Exchange to the wall, led to the complete collapse of the original theatre equipment company...
Died. Wilfred Washington Fry, 61, onetime Y.M.C.A. executive, head of N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., potent Philadelphia advertising agency; of complications following influenza; in Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College Hospital which last year elected him its president. A Baptist and ardent Dry, he accepted no post-Repeal liquor accounts, dropped Canada Dry when that firm began to sell gin, whiskey, beer (TIME, Sept...