Word: kessler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...identify the characters of Having Wonderful Time. In response to the wishes of the Hays office, which also effected a few improving variations on the morals of the personages involved, the heroine's name was changed from Teddy Stern to Teddy Shaw, the hero's from Chick Kessler to Chick Kirkland. Aaronson and Rappaport were Anglicized respectively as Armbruster and Beatty, and even "Itchy" Flexner, the buffoon of the piece, was, according to Author Kober, "forced to change his proud family name to Faulkner...
...world. He went to the East Indies, worked for the Netherlands Trading Society in Deli, Medan and Penang, learned how to make money for the Society, and quit to make money for himself. His next job was with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was head of a small concern with a large name, which was: The Royal Dutch Co. for the Working of Petroleum Wells in the Dutch East Indies...
...time Kessler died, in 1900, Royal Dutch was a respectable little company, with wells all over the Dutch East Indies and markets throughout the East. And Deterding, who succeeded Kessler as managing director, was dreaming of fighting Rockefeller. By 1903, backed by the Rothschilds, he set out to buck Standard Oil. Deterding lost more than $4,000,000, but fought Standard to a standstill (in spite of the free lamps Standard gave away) and won a market in China. From then until the War he was busy grabbing up new properties in Mexico, Venezuela and California...
...School: Wolter Kessler scholarship, the Harvard Club of Indiana, ta Alembert W. Brayton, 3d, 2L, of Indian apolis, Indiana...
Last year, Charles W. Kessler '37, of Salem, an honor student, a member of the football team and the Student Council, received the award...