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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lewis Browne, famed Manhattan Rabbi-author (This Believing World, That Man Heine) was long offended by ponderous Manhattan Telephone books which require weary thumbing, peering. Shrewd, he adopted "Zzyz" as a nom de telephone, secured last place in the book. But his shrewdness brought publicity and publicity brought imitation. The last name in new telephone books about to be issued is not Lewis Browne Zzyz but R. Cantarrana Zzyzz. The usurper is Ramon Cantarrana, young Cuban, onetime sugar broker, last week honeymooning in Cuba...
Bert Acosta, stunt flyer and playboy, was named correspondent in an uncontested divorce suit tried last week in Long Island City, L. I. Said Justice Norman S. Dike of the Queens County Supreme Court: "I have heard of Acosta as a daring aviator. I have also passed upon the amorous activities of Mr. Acosta in a previous case, . . when another divorce was secured, so I judge he is a most active man in other people's families when he is not aviating. It is about time he was eliminated from all public activities...
When, last fortnight, J. P. Morgan & Co. announced a merger of three potent New York State power companies (TIME, June 24), only New York Staters were deeply interested. When, last week, final approval of the long-pending merger of Continental Oil and Marland Oil companies was interpreted as first step in a national Morgan oil corporation, public interest was wider but still quiescent. But also announced last week was a Morgan-managed merger of Fleischmann Co., Royal Baking Powder Co., and E. W. Gillett, Ltd.* At that the country sat up and took sharp notice...
...Cochran, Fleischmann President Joseph C. Wilshire, Board Chairman Max C. Fleischmann, Royal President William Ziegler Jr. Mr. Wilshire will be president of the new company. The directorate will include Morgan-Men William Ewing and Henry P. Davison. The Morgan interest in the merger was accented by the personal friendship long existing between Morgan-Partner Cochran and Major Fleischmann, and by the Morgan ownership of a considerable portion of Fleischmann stock (estimated at 400,000 shares) purchased...
...Gaff, Fleischmann & Co. at Riverside, Ohio. Their first great forward step was made in 1876 when they exhibited a Model Vienna Bakery at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. From the fame of this exhibit came an increased demand for Fleischmann's yeast. Soon there was a Fleischmann plant on Long Island, then another at Peekskill, N. Y, Guiding spirit of the early Fleischmann company was Charles Fleischmann, who died in 1897. It was under the leadership (1897-1925) of the late Julius Fleischmann that the company went through its major expansion period. Following his death, his brother, Major...