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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sculptor Jo Davidson spent nine hours, missed a dinner party, watching his statue of the late, great Senator La Follette being moved into Manhattan's Anderson Galleries (TIME...
Muriel Draper was born in New England, bred in Italy and France. She married the late Paul Draper, singer of songs, brother of Monologist Ruth Draper; and for six years they entertained in Vienna, in Florence, in London. Divorced before Paul died, Muriel Draper now works as interior decorator...
...Myron C. Taylor was given last week credit for finishing what the late great John Pierpont Morgan began. Mr. "Taylor, brilliant chairman of the finance committee of U. S. Steel, announced that, at their annual meeting on April 15, stockholders would be asked to approve an increase in authorized common stock from some 7,500,000 to 12,500,000, thereby potentially capitalizing the company at $1,250,000,000. From new stock to be issued at terms to be fixed, cash will be received to redeem all the bonds of the parent company. Thus Steel common becomes "as good...
Total stock to be issued will probably not greatly exceed $1,000,000,000 in par value. But the offering price of the new stock may well be $150 per share, the same U. S. common which once was water and which the late great Judge Elbert H. Gary had already expanded by a 40% stock dividend shortly before he died in 1927. The new capitalization also removes the last traces of Carnegie; for although he had provided that some of the bonds should never be retired, most of the holders of the special Carnegie bonds have agreed to cash...
Publisher Hadden was born in Brooklyn, the son of the late Crowell Hadden Jr. and the present Mrs. William P. Pool. Banker Crowell Hadden, 88, is his grandfather. He went to the Hotchkiss School and Yale University (class of 1920). He edited both the school and college newspapers. During the War he was a leader in the R. 0. T. C. movement. Intense in all things, he had his hair close-cropped as an example in military efficiency to the battery of which he was ist Sergeant. The moment the age-limit was lowered to permit it, he was commissioned...