Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republic Iron & Steel is the keynote of the new structure. Organized in 1899, from a merger of 24 small steel companies, chiefly in Ohio and Indiana, the company last year went through a rapid expansion program which included acquisition of Trumbull Steel Co. and Steel & Tubes, Inc. There were also continuous but as yet unfulfilled rumors of a merger with Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., in which Mr. Eaton is also interested. Republic Iron & Steel showed a net of $4,642,000 in 1928 and a net of $8,667,530 for the first nine months...
...yacht-goer, Lawyer Aldrich is 44, also a director of Bankers Trust Co. While he has been legal advisor to Equitable for ten years, most famed of his legal activities was to handle John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s ousting of Oilman Robert Wright Stewart from Standard Oil of Indiana. After his election, Mr. Aldrich frankly conceded he came to Equitable representing Rockefeller interests, confirming the long-held assumption that Equitable is controlled by the Rockefellers...
...Author. Theodore Dreiser's real name is Dresser. (His songwriting brother Paul, author of "The Wabash Blues," still calls himself Dresser.) Born in Indiana in 1871, he wrote for newspapers (Chicago Globe}, was traveling correspondent for St. Louis Globe-Democrat, edited Butterick Publications (Delineator, Designer, New Idea). Fat-cheeked, loose-lipped, furrowed of brow, Author Dreiser looks like what he is: a puzzled brooder over the tragic inconsistencies of life. Other books: The "Genius," Chains, Jennie Gerhardt, Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy...
...Pugsley, '86, vice-president of the Westchester County National Bank, of Peekskill, New York, 'was one, it became known yesterday, of $10,000 to the Harvard Law School, to be used for research in the codification of international law. Among the other recipients are Princeton University, Earlham College of Indiana, and the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. This is Pugsley's second gift to the Law School this year. On November 14, he established the John Harvey Gregory Trust, consisting of an initial grant of $400,000. Sixty scholarships of $400 each will be available at first...
...confusion and disorder of the season, three teams have emerged unscathed, victorious in every game of a hard schedule. They are Notre Dame, Purdue, and Pittsburgh, two Indiana institutions and one from western Pennsylvania. The consistent power which has characterized the play of all three teams throughout the fall has placed them in a football aristocracy all their own. Other elevens have had near-perfect records and some have won all their contests, but none has been so convincing in victory, so steadily capable as this trio, the "Big Three" of 1929 football. To mention the names...