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Died, Mary Morton, 51, daughter of the late U. S. Vice President Levi Parsons Morton (1889-93 under Benjamin Harrison); after a short illness; in Geneva, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 2, 1932 | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

Professor Thaxter was born in Newton, August 28, 1858, and was the son of Levi L. and Celia (Laighton) Thaxter. He was graduated from Harvard with the degree of A.B. in 1882, and subsequently received his A.M. and Ph.D...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THAXTER, PROFESSOR OF BOTANY, DIES AT HOME | 4/23/1932 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 18, 1932 | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sears to State Street | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...library of the Vatican, Professor Levi Arnold Post, will collect material for a study of the text tradition of Plato's Laws. In 1912 Professor Post received his master's degree from Harvard, and is now associate professor of Greek at Haverford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT GRADUATES FROM HARVARD GET GUGGENHEIM FUNDS | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

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