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...have been added, 2,559 dropped for death and other reasons, leaving a total of 29,704 compared to 28,805 in the 15th edition. Notable are inclusions and exclusions of the 16th edition. Included, for example, are Jackie Coogan, Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., many a newly famed industrialist. Not included are Greta Garbo, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, Tobacconist George Washington Hill. The preface explains that in 1900 Who's Who listed one in about 8,000 of the general populace. Now it lists one in about 4,000. Statistics would therefore argue that some day (specifically...
...from Cambridge, England, where he has been studying in Clare College. During the summer vacation he will study business and banking under his father's eye. Said he to Manhattan newshawks: "I do not think I would be a great success as a banker or industrialist. Commerce and banking hold no particular interest for me. . . . Other members of my family . . . are better fitted than I am to look after the family interests. I have certain ideas of my own about the business of book publishing . . . but I don't think they will bear discussing now, especially since...
...purpose of the German Hygiene Museum is to persuade lazy, ignorant, indifferent people to look after their own health. The late great German industrialist Dr. Karl August Lingner (died 1916) who conceived the Museum, found that the best persuasion was fascinating study. Money came from German governments (state, municipal), insurance companies, industries. With habitual German thoroughness another prototype institution has been achieved, matching the German planetaria and industrial museums...
...there be merger!" One of the pair was President Eugene Gifford Grace who had conducted all negotiations with Youngstown's Founder-Chairman James A. Campbell. The other was joke-loving, big-chested, big-hearted Chairman Charles M. Schwab, than whom only Henry Ford is a more famed industrialist. Although Youngstown's Campbell publicly advocated the deal, Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland has furnished fierce opposition (TIME. March 24). And, perhaps afraid of Mr. Schwab's oratory, perhaps to be dramatic, but surely unwilling to compromise. Mr. Eaton left town almost the same minute that Bethlehem...
...southern Illinois, Mrs. McCormick found husbandmen, after lean years, interested chiefly in farm relief and the tariff not in the League of Nations or the World Court. She spoke of a compromise tariff helpful to farmer and industrialist alike. What made Mrs. McCormick glum was the discovery of a widespread prejudice against a woman in the Senate. Added this was the covert opposition of many Illinois women to her because of what they considered her politically autocratic manner. Said she: "I hope nobody will vote for me simply "because I am a woman or vote against me solely because...