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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lately all he had left were his memories. Last week he no longer needed the $100 a month which the estate of J. P. Morgan Sr. had been sending him: at the Home for Incurables, cancer of the throat brought death to 78-year-old Pliny Fisk...
...ardent yachtsman like his idol, J. P. Morgan Sr., Pliny Fisk in 1919 visited Tangier on his 33-ft. Riviera. He always believed afterwards that it was there he caught sleeping sickness. He eventually recovered, but not before he "lost control of things." He quit Harvey Fisk & Sons, sold his Exchange seat for $55,000. Faulty judgment slowly took his millions. In 1924 he sold the Riviera and his $500,000 house in Rye. He dropped out of his clubs-the Union League, Metropolitan, University, New York Yacht...
Pointing out that both indicted directors and the vice president had resigned, McKesson & Robbins' Trustee William J. Wardall declared: "The indictment . . . should in no way impair the continued public confidence in the administration of McKesson & Robbins, Inc., whose business is progressing soundly towards full recovery." McKesson's net sales for February, said Trustee Wardall, were up nearly three quarters of one per cent from February...
...revenue-is a severely handsome, blue-carpeted room overlooking Lake Michigan. It contains two desks, one flat and one rolltop, and last week no one sat at either. But hard at work next door, in the same cubbyhole he has occupied for 29 years, was beaknosed, grey-haired Edward J. (for nothing) Engel...
This is the precocious first novel of a precocious bricklayer. Born 28 years ago in the slums of West Hoboken, N. J., handsome Pietro di Donato was 14 when his father was killed in a construction accident, leaving a widow and eight children. Pietro, a "bricklayer in diapers," took up his father's bricklaying trowel, has supported his family ever since. In his off-hours he read everything in sight, especially Russian novels...