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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corp. (1928 sales: $101,037,092) oysters join cereals (Postum, Grape Nuts, Post Toasties), beverages (Maxwell House Coffee, Instant Postum, Baker's Cocoa, Maxwell House Tea), as well as 34 other branded food products. From his fac tories and those of his 18 manufacturing subsidiaries, able President Colby M. Chester Jr. might select enough to sea son, sweeten and serve a nourishing poly-course dinner, in which only meat would be missing. For this deletion, meat-eating President Chester, son of a famed sea-admiral, might find satisfaction in the fishy products of the recently acquired General Sea Foods...
When Senior Rand was killed in an airplane crash in 1919, Buffalonians knew little of Junior Rand except that he was 27, had worked in all the departments of his father's bank, served in the Y. M. C. A. during the War. Of this obscurity Banker Rand quickly divested himself. That year he became assistant secretary of The Marine Trust Co., the next year vice president. In 1921, anxious to show he could do something for himself besides running his father's bank, Mr. Rand with some young friends acquired an interest in the Buffalo Trust...
...From Yale, to succeed Dean John Henry Wigmore of Northwestern University's law school, went Prof. Leon Green. . . . The baby of Northwestern's entering class was one Harold M. Finley, 13, of McConnellsville, Ohio...
...M. Donald Cadman, nephew of Radio Preacher Samuel Parkes Cadman, drove two thieves out of his father's drugstore at Chappaqua, N. Y., had them arrested, retrieved...
After spending the greater part of the University recess in South America, Dr. Glover M. Allen, associate professor in Zoology, has returned to his duties at the University Museum. Traveling through Sao Paulo with the purpose of establishing mor cordial relations with the local museums, Dr. Allen delivered several public lectures at the National Museum of Natural History and Archaeology of the state of Sao Paulo. Later he journeyed to the Instituto Butantan, where he delivered a short address to the staff. Sao Paulo is an agricultural state in which nearly three-fourths of the world's coffee is grown...