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Married. Mrs. Livingston French, mother-in-law of John Jacob Astor III; and James Lenox Banks Jr., Manhattan attorney; in Manhattan...
That was no mean concession from the chairman of RFC, but the rest of the Administration was far from satisfied. Three days later Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau announced a fact-finding inquiry to settle once & for all the question of what was holding up credit expansion. Dr. Jacob Viner of the University of Chicago was picked to head a staff of 50 fiscal experts drawn from Midwestern universities to comb the Chicago Federal Reserve district, considered typical of the whole country...
...raced every Saturday with Junius Morgan. But in 1932 Hearn's, crippled by Depression, long eclipsed in fashion by younger stores, was turned over to a board of trustees. They were glad of a chance to sell the store lock, stock & barrel to two Jews named Maurice Levin and Jacob M. Kaplan, who promptly set about putting it on its feet...
...cash basis. That enabled him to pick up attractive bargains from wholesalers and manufacturers. Then he spent $300,000 dressing up the store with a new front on 14th Street, new counters, fresh paint, new escalators. While his brother, who had changed his name from Levin to Jacob M. Kaplan, managed Hearn's capital, and a store executive named Leonard Ginsberg looked after the merchandise, President Levin started a series of shrewdly aggressive promotion campaigns. In two years business had picked up enough to keep 1,000 clerks busy. Last week President Levin opened his enlarged wine & liquor store, said...
...world Dolores got her start with stocky, tousle-haired Jacob Epstein for whom she posed for a long series of John Singer Sargent painted several por traits of her before he died. Many times she posed for Augustus John, Sir John Lavery, and Christopher Richard Wynne influenced by Futurism and the first to renounce it. Even snobbish Philip de Laszlo decided that Dolores was as important a figure as the princes, promoters and prelates to whom he normally devotes his easels...