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...last week he bought, in association with John McEntee Bowman, the Miami Biltmore Hotel and the Miami Biltmore Country Club, on both of which he has ordered luxurious improvements. In 1929 the hotel and club were bought by a group including Mr. Bowman, Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob. Last week the seller was Whitney National Bank of New Orleans, representing bond holders...
Upton Sinclair, hack writer extraordinary to the Socialist Cause, once wrote dime novels for a living. Now he writes them in all seriousness. Like his literary cousins, the late Jacob Abbott and Horatio Alger, Sinclair is apt to make his heroes into preposterous prigs. In The Wet Parade he has out-prigged himself: his hero is a conscientious Prohibition agent...
...results of research into business history will be published in the quarterly "Journal of Economics and Business History". A life of John Jacob Astor, and a treatise on the Medicis will appear shortly, while the study of the Massachusetts bank from 1784-1865 will be continued...
...Mifflinburg, Pa., Jacob Miller bought a pair of red boots, wore them every Sunday for 69 years. For the last four years John Miller, now 93, has worn his red boots every...
This year Jacob Fred Schoellkopf, Buffalo power and dye tycoon, contributed a gold medal, named for his late father, to honor important industrial research. First Schoellkopf medalist, named last week, is President Frank Jerome Tone, 63, of Carborundum Co., who helped develop that and other synthetic abrasives, who originated the first commercial process for producing silicon metal (used in electrical transformers, alloys, hydrogen manufacture), who possesses "to an unusual degree the rare combination of the qualities of the pure scientist, the plant engineer, and the successful business administrator." Graduates of Hill School and Cornell of six or seven years...