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...Thiesmeyer, Summit, N.J.; E. J. Hickey, Cambridge, Mass.; Milton Hopkins, Port Washington, N.Y.; R. H. Howland, Providence, R.I.; P. R. Jenkins, Rochester, N.Y.; C. L. Johnson, Waukon, lowa; W. D. Keller, N. Kansas City, Mo.; C. F. Kellogg, Gt. Barrington, Mass.; L. C. Keyes, Cambridge, Mass.; Henry Lasker, Hyde Park, Mass.; S. T. Kimball, Manhattan, Kan.; H. P. Lazarus, Syracuse, N.Y.; C. A. P. McAree, Haverhill, Mass.; R. G. McWilliams, Birmingham, Ala.; W. S. Martin, Greenwich, Conn.; G. J. Maschinot, Paris, France; J. M. Moore, Parkville, Mo.; H. L. Movius, Jr., Boston, Mass.; C. P. O'Donnell, Chicago...
Until the spring of 1930 Paramount-Publix was considered a model cinema company, issuing stock to pay for expansions. Then it was revealed that it had agreed to buy its stock back should it drop. The late William Wrigley Jr. (gum), Albert Davis Lasker (advertising) and John Daniel Hertz (taxicabs), all Chicagoans, began buying into Paramount. Their man was Sam Katz, of Chicago's Balaban & Katz chain of cinema theatres. At 13 he had played the piano in Carl Laemmle's first 5? cinema theatre on Chicago's west side. At 16 he owned a theatre with...
...millions to publicize his gum in practically every country of the globe. He lost several small fortunes in the process. But the fortune he finally attained was reputed to be close to $100,000,000. In 1917 he bought an interest (along with Jonathan Ogden Armour and Albert David Lasker) in the Chicago Cubs, the money-losing, badly run National League baseball club whose members lived so riotously that Wrigley virtually took on the role of reformer as well as part owner. In 1924 he bought out the Lasker interest, became owner of about 71% of the Cubs' stock...
...made a profitable business enterprise as well as a playground for himself and family. He owned the Biltmore Hotel at Phoenix in which he died, was a director of some 40 corporations (although he seldom attended meetings), was associated in many a business with his great & good friends Adman Lasker, Charles Alexander McCulloch, John Daniel Hertz. He believed religiously in all the old maxims, went to bed early, got up early, rode horseback almost to the day of his death, at 70 looked 20 years younger. Red faced, clear eyed, with not a grey hair in his head, recently...
John Daniel Hertz, Albert Davis Lasker and William Wrigley Jr. were elected to the board of Paramount Publix Corp. Mr. Hertz, retired founder of Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, will be chairman of the finance committee. Asked whether he had a financial interest in Paramount, Gumman Wrigley last week exulted: "I've been buying Paramount Publix stock for a long time, and I intend to buy a lot more. Just this morning I bought 5,000 shares. I don't know exactly how much...