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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ferdinand of Prussia, grandson of the onetime Kaiser, lately engaged to German Cinemactress Lili Damita, is listed as "Louis Ferdinand," student-laborer, in the Ford assembly plant in Los Angeles. He eats his lunches from paper bags. Last week he said he liked his job. Said he: "I'm just goofy-you understand that?-about it, although I do not know what my parents will do when they find...
Manhattan-Philadelphia financier, and his associates of Dieppe Corp. (including Financier William Kissam Vanderbilt Jr., Banker Jules Semon Bache, Cinemagnates Adolph Zukor, Joseph M. Schenck, Producer Florenz Ziegfeld), were freed last week from long litigation, proceeded with their plans to remodel Manhattan's Central Park Casino as "a dining place for New York society . . . around which the cultured life of the city can rotate." Announced features: a black glass ballroom, an orange terrace, a tulip pavilion...
...Logan, Ohio, Judge Harley M. Whitcraft suspended Warren Canan's one year sentence for perjury on the witness stand when Canan promised to read every Sunday for two years the commandment "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor...
...last week, Knox Hat Co., Inc., announced an offering* of no par, non-voting common at $140 a share, a few U. S. hat wearers remembered the time (1917) when Knox shares were selling at $6. That was during a reorganization period following the retirement (1913) of Colonel Edward M. Knox, son of Founder Charles Knox, and before the arrival of the present management, which, under the leadership of President F. H. Montgomery, showed net earnings in 1928 of $859,997, or $10.10 a share on common stock. Acquiring Dunlap & Co. (1919), Long's Hat Stores Corp. (1927), Kaskel...
...What Miss Rebman needs is a big brother-from now on I'm going to be her big Christian brother," said Cleveland's Delegate E. A. Roberts...