Word: markets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other Possibilities. Outstanding among Chicago's industrialists, of course, is utilityman Samuel Insull. Possibly the baseball and gum interests of William Wrigley Jr., the stock market speculations of Arthur W. Cutten, the taxicab past of John D. Hertz (see BUSINESS) make them less available. No such considerations, however, would arise in connection with Thomas E. Wilson, packing house (Wilson & Co.) president, or Thomas E. Donnelley, "biggest" printer. Ideal from the standpoint of public spirit would be Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears Roebuck, famed philanthropist (Chicago Industrial Museum, Jewish colonization in Russia, Negro schools and Negro...
While the stock-market is happy and the motor industry hale, there will be plenty of people who want to go to U. S. prizefights, however wretched they may be. It is not probable therefore that Max Schmeling, if he becomes heavyweight champion, will be expected to defend his title in the back rooms of speakeasies, like John L. Sullivan, or on a barge, like James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett. The other champions,* of whom Tex Rickard made a list before he died, are as well off as ever. But perhaps million-dollar gates are now definitely in the past...
Tastes change so rapidly that "hits" come and go within a week. College buyers are always ahead of the market, and prove fickle in the extreme. Eccentricity makes a forecast of musical sales impossible, as frequently the students fall to accept songs rated as certain favorites. Sometimes they give vogue to a record by their patronage...
...Schulberg and Hiram Abrams. after the latter had been discharged by Zukor, organized United Artists; how Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, David Wark Griffith came to fame, how Zukor bought Paramount and parted from Mary Pickford and how the War, wiping out foreign competition, made the whole world a market...
Hornblower & Weeks: F. Dewey Everett and Edward V. Jaeger, market advice editor, of New York; W. David Owen, James J. Phelan Jr., Henry B. Dearbon of Chicago; bringing the firm's memberships...