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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Steele, 82, lawyer, unobtrusive partner (since 1900) in the banking firm J. P. Morgan & Co. ; after a long illness; in Westbury, L. I. A quiet philanthropist, he gave $500,000 to Manhattan's St. Thomas Church for its choir school...
Seven years ago descendants of the owners of the old whaleship John Carver formed American Whaling Company, sent a small "floating factory" to the Australian fisheries. In 1937 testy, Danish-born Hans J. Isbrandtsen of New York City (Isbrandtsen-Moller Co., shipping), founded Western Operating Corp. with the help of Norwegian-born Texas Corp. Board Chairman "Cap" Torkild Rieber, Danish-born General Motors President William S. Knudsen and others. For nearly $1,000,000 he bought the 12, 395-ton former U. S. Navy auxiliary ship Ulysses, converted it into one of the most modern whale refineries afloat and dispatched...
...Products, American Can, International Nickel, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Texas Corp., National Steel, Liggett & Myers "B," Reynolds Tobacco "B," U. S. Tobacco, American Telephone, Consolidated Edison, Public Service of New Jersey, Eastman Kodak, International Harvester, Procter & Gamble, Sherwin-Williams, Union Tank Car, American Chicle, Beech-Nut, General Foods, J. C. Penney, Sears-Roebuck, Commercial Credit, Commercial Investment Trust, Household Finance, International Business Machines, Allied Chemical, New Jersey Zinc, Homestake, Phelps Dodge, Bristol-Myers...
...churchmen-Bishop John Mark Gannon of Erie, Pa., Bishop James A. Griffin of Springfield, Ill., Monsignor Michael J. Ready of Washington-had gone to Mexico to confer on a joint enterprise, a seminary founded two years ago at Las Vegas, N. M. to furnish priests to the Mexican Church. For seminaries, as well as cassocks, are illegal in practice in Mexico. The U. S. prelates found the seminary with its 66 students, going well enough. For the rest, they visited Mexico City's landmarks, were banqueted-in mufti-by a Methodist who has not always been popular with Catholic...
...best-selling novels (The Good Companions, Angel Pavement), several U. S. stage flops, one hit (Dangerous Corner), stood up to the almighty British Broadcasting Corp., calling it monopolistic and its programs a bore. Fortnight ago BBC commissioned a novel for serial broadcasting, 20 minutes every Sunday. Commissioned novelist: J. B. Priestley. The radio novel, Let the People Sing, was reported to be another cross-sectioning of British life like The Good Companions...