Word: leiter
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Died. Joseph Leiter, 63, capitalist, sportsman, famed wheat speculator; of pneumonia; in Chicago. Son of the late Tycoon Levi Zeigler Leiter (cofounder of Chicago's Marshall Field & Co.), at 29 he blazed upon the financial skies when, with $1,000,000 given him by his father as a graduation present, he cornered the wheat market, only to lose everything- including a paper profit of some $7,000,000 and $12,000,000 of his father's fortune-after being "double crossed" by some of his associates in the pit. In 1923 his sister, the Countess of Suffolk...
First Sears store .in the shopping heart of a major city, the new store was Sears's 381st retail market place. Cost of the experiment was not large. For its ancient (1891) Leiter Building the Levi Leiter Estate will get 1½% of Sears's net sales for five years, with a minimum guarantee of $75,000 above taxes after three years. The 20-year lease may be revised after five. Remodeling cost $990,000. Sears hopes soon to be doing a $15,000,000 per year business in store No. 381. Other Loop stores sell from...
...afraid of bears is Tycoon Joseph Leiter of Chicago who owns a black one, Pansy, now vacationing with him in New Orleans...
Birthdays. General August von Mackensen (82); Dr. William Temple Hornaday (77); Lord Jellicoe (72); Edward Hugh Sothern (72); William Crapo Durant (70); Robert Patterson Lament (64); Joseph Leiter (63); Gerard Swope (59); Newton Diehl Baker (60); Arthur Atwater Kent (58); Winston Churchill (57); Frank Jay Gould...
...stewards of Arlington Park race-track near Chicago having disqualified his horse Princess Camelia for fouling three other horses in a race last week, Joseph Leiter used what the stewards called "intemperate language and con-duct." They fined him $250, suspended him from the track...