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...operated his companies ably, so Mr. Hopson financed them astutely. Stocks of his numerous holding companies were sold to the public but control of the two companies at the top of the pyramid remained with him and John Isaac Mange, president and later chairman of the system. Mr. Hopson, shrewd mathematician, invented many complicated kinds of securities for sale to the public. According to the Federal Trade Commission, Associated Gas & Electric Co. has or has had (the system changes so often that A. G. E. can generally catch in error anybody who ventures to describe it) three classes of common...
...Cedar Knoll. Sands Point, L. I. From the estate of his father, who went down with the Lusitania, he got the first installment (about $1,000,000) of a fortune which he will continue to inherit by quarters every four years. From his mother, daughter of the late Captain Isaac Emerson (Bromo Seltzer) of Baltimore, twice married since his father's death, he received the string of horses which she had raced under the name of the Sagamore Stable. An enthusiastic turfman, which the senior Vanderbilt was not, young "Al" promptly set out to enjoy his birthday presents. Because...
Oldest department store in Philadelphia is Strawbridge & Clothier, established in 1862 by Quaker Justus C. Strawbridge who was joined by Quaker Isaac H. Clothier. The founders did a rushing business in Quaker shawls & bonnets which Strawbridge & Clothier still sells today. Only once in 73 years has it ever lost money. That was the year (1932) it opened its 14-story Market Street skyscraper, Philadelphia's most modern store. More conservative than Gimbel's, second only to Wanamaker's in total sales, Strawbridge & Clothier prides itself on a long list of innovations. It sent out the first typewritten...
...President Tily. It had been worked over and approved by the Clothiers and the Strawbridges who, as sons of the founders, own most of the stock, carry on family traditions. Morris Lewis Clothier is chairman of the board, a benefactor of the Quaker colleges Swarthmore and Haverford. His brother, Isaac H. Clothier, vice president, is famed as a sportsman and horse fancier. (Their cousin, Robert C. Clothier, who did not go into the store, is president of Rutgers University.) Of the three living sons of Founder Strawbridge only one, Robert, is active as vice president. His brother Francis, a director...
...Named Iphigenie for her mother, Iphigenia Wise Ochs, who has always been called Effie. Widow Effie is the daughter of the late Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, founder of Reform Judaism in the U. S. He once wrote a novel based on Greek mythology in which Iphigenia (''Great Princess") is a noble character...