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Married. Albert Davis Lasker, 60, onetime chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board (1921-23), onetime chairman of Lord & Thomas advertising agency; and Mary Woodward Reinhardt, secretary of the Birth Control Federation of America; in Manhattan; he for the third time, she for the second...
...Last fortnight President Hutchins was obliged to announce one of the richest hauls in University of Chicago's history-a total of $8,000,000 in December. Major item: the $3,500,000 Lake Forest estate (including a top-rank, 18-hole golf course) of Adman Albert Davis Lasker...
Louis Levy called on Paul Hahn, vice president of American Tobacco Co. Louis Levy suggested to Paul Hahn that $250,000 be borrowed from Albert Lasker, then president of Lord & Thomas, advertising agency. Lord & Thomas handled the tobacco company's advertising, amounting at the time to some $19,000,000 annually (commission...
Hahn sent Sullivan to Lasker, who lent the $250,000 under the impression that it was to be used to cover stock losses. A month later, the Second Circuit Court...
Judge Knox cleared American Tobacco's Paul Hahn of anything worse than "poor judgment," declared that innocent Lord & Thomas' Albert Lasker had been "shamefully treated." He said that the relations existing between Levy and Judge Manton were such that Judge Manton should have retired from the case of his own volition. "When he was not moved to do so, there was a duty which imposed itself upon Levy. Trained lawyer that he is, and possessing an experience gained in more than 30 years of practice, he should have appreciated instantly that his dealings with Manton had been such...