Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 15 acres for $5,000,000. Then in 1931 he announced a grandiose scheme for the erection of a $50,000,000 development for junior Wall Street executives. At this point he found that he could not get credit. At the same time Fred F. French Operators, Inc. began passing its dividends on $14,000,000 of preferred stock. The project remained only a scheme with a staggering upkeep in land taxes...
Retiring to the point of anonymity is Morris Joseloff, vice president and director of New England's chain First National Stores, Inc. Only his intimate friends know that he has a private pension list of poor to whom he sends weekly checks, that last year he financed a sandwich and coffee stand for Hartford, Conn. unemployed, that Sir John Lavery's portrait of his wife was exhibited in last year's Royal Academy show...
Suing for Divorce. Mrs. Florence Nightingale Graham Lewis (Elizabeth Arden, cosmetics); from Thomas J. Lewis, 15 years her husband, twelve years manager of the wholesale division of Elizabeth Arden, Inc.; in Augusta, Me. Said Canadian-born Mrs. Lewis, who owns 20 beauty parlors throughout the land, races a string of horses: "My pride in the business, my idealism, caused the trouble between us. ... I found I was out on a limb, so I had to cut the limb...
Smart Jack Kapp left Brunswick lately, decided that popular records would have to be cheaper. He founded his own company, Decca Records, Inc., which for 35¢ apiece will have discs on the market this week made by Bing Crosby, Guy Lombardo, the Mills Brothers, the Casa Loma Band, Frank Crumit, Victor Young, Isham Jones. Jack Kapp's claim: All other cheap records have been made by obscure or mediocre performers. His white hope: Bob Crosby, young brother of Bing...
Back of the venture is Alco Gravure Inc., controlled by Joseph Palmer Knapp who heads Crowell Publishing Co. and whose father set up an insurance company out of which grew Metropolitan Life...