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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...syndicate head, except when it does not invite any participants but handles the entire job itself, Most houses are syndicate heads in some issues, participants in many others. The lordly House of Morgan, however, is never a participant. During the present year Goldman, Sachs & Co. and G. L. Ohrstrom & Co., Inc., have also handled no issues except those in which they were the leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Half Billion Per Month | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Died. Thomas LeBoutellier II, 51, of Manhattan, revolver champion of Europe, brother-in-law of Malcom Stevenson, international polo player; at Westbury, L. I. During the first chukker of a polo match at Meadowbrook Club, Mr. Leboutellier, stricken with heart failure, fell dying from his saddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...father, Alexandre fils (1824-95) began to write when he found himself $10,000 in debt. Taunted throughout youth for his bastardy, his works contained preachments against adultery, seduction. He gained most fame from his plays (La Dame anx Camclias, Idces de Madame Aubray, La Femmc de Claude, L'Etrangcrc) in which such great actors as Sarah Bernhardt, Benoit Constant Coquelin and Jean Mounet-Sully appeared. In 1874 he was elected to the French Academy, a distinction which his father never achieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: High-Yellow Fictioneer | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Walter P. Chrysler, motor maker, offered to build two swimming pools, some bathhouses and a long pier on an eight-acre estate, once Actress Olga Petrova's, owned by him at Great Neck, L. I., and also to throw in $15,000 cash and trade the Petrova for a two-acre public beach adjoining his own home. Great Neck refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...seeded number one is Harris Coggeshall 1L a graduate of Grinnell College in 1928, and ranked fourteenth in National Men's Singles. Number two is Arthur Ingraham '30, who played second man on the team last year, and was elected Captain for next spring. He is followed by W. L. Breese '30, whose work at number three position on last year's undefeated team is well-remembered, and R. A. Murphy '33, a former National Indoor Junior Champion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALL TENNIS TOURNEY DRAWS 243 COMPETITORS | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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