Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England syndicate, headed by John Silsbee Lawrence of Boston...
...maxim used to be that a stock should sell, other things being equal, for about ten times earnings. The maxim now says "15 times earnings." This is known as Raskob's Rule, because one day in March 1928, John Jacob Raskob, then finance director of General Motors, walked up a gangplank on his way to Europe and remarked that 15-times was a proper modern ratio-that General Motors ought to have been selling at that time...
...born sculptor who recently contended in Oilman Ernest Whitworth Marland's competition for the Pioneer Woman and whose torso, "Volupte," is lodged in the Metropolitan Museum. Another was Samilla Love Jameson (married name: Heinzmann) who lately completed a bust of Tammany's 100-year-old Grand Sachem John Richard Voorhis (TIME, Aug. 5). She offered to sell the bust to the highest bidder for money to help the cause. Others were Tamara Loeb, Guggenheim prize winner in sculpture and W. B. Graham, dance critic. All attested to Dreyfuss's sanity and volunteered to post a bond...
Married. Miss Josephine McClellan of Manhattan, daughter of the late General John McClellan; and Cuthbert Lee, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...
...Died. John ("Old John") Pringle, of Los Angeles, $3-a-day cinema extra, father of Cinemactor John Gilbert in Los Angeles...