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...trade in bonds- shrewd, plump Mrs. Irma Eggleston, one-time manager of trading at C. F. Childs & Co. Most notable protege is Richard George Brennan, owner of his own bond house before Depression, whom Guardian Devlet rescued last year from a career as longshoreman and salesman of lumber jackets...
...last week. Peasants in a dozen villages of the Soviet Far East were reported to have broken collective contracts signed not by them but for them by the local Soviets. The contracts bound the peasants to go out into the woods in sub-zero weather and stay there in lumber camps until they had cut specified quotas of wood...
...reason for refusing General Johnson's call to public duty he could have found it in the fact that no newspaper code yet exists for him to administer. The business of drawing one up began last July. Last week, long after such tougher problems as coal, steel. autos, lumber, had been codified, the news paper code was still on President Roosevelt's desk waiting, ostensibly, for him to find time to sign...
...Ellis Campbell. 61, famed Manhattan undertaker, director of the funerals of Rudolph Valentino, Jeanne Eagels, Oscar Hammerstein. William Dean Howells, Anna Held, Yernon Castle, Frank W. Woolworth, Texas Guinan, Fatty Arbuckle, Francesco de Pinedo and many another celebrity; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Born in Illinois, he sawed casket lumber for a local undertaker, went to Manhattan with no money, plenty of ideas. He was credited with introducing the "funeral church," motorized hearses, scattering ashes from airplanes, high-pressure publicity ("A simple and refined service, suitable for all persons"). He had nine Rolls-Royces and three chauffeurs...
...have marked us for their prey. . . ." Edward Wellington Backus was taken to the Minnesota prairies as a child during the Civil War. He worked his way through four years of college, tried carpentering, tried bookkeeping and finally borrowed $3,000 to buy a one-half interest in a small lumber company. Lumber led to paper and paper to International Falls, where he organized his own bank, formed his own telephone company and, after James J. Hill refused to enter the territory, built his own railroads. A rugged individualist of the Ford school, he hates & fears the banker, denounces all curtailment...