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...will be sold at auction in Jersey City. In Stockholm Torsten Kreuger was fined 1,500.000 kroner (about $390,000) and sentenced to one year's hard labor for his part in his brother's crockery. Administrators of the estate of Chicago's late Edith Rockefeller McCormick announced that the furnishings of her Romanesque Lake Shore Drive town house will be auctioned next month...
...turn of the century the late Cyrus Hall McCormick was looking for a cashier for his reaper company. He sent an emissary to fetch George Ranney, 24, a teller in the Chicago branch of the Bank of Montreal. Said young Ranney: "If Mr. McCormick wants to see me. let him come over to the bank." So the great Cyrus, in his sideburns and full dignity, marched into the bank and took Teller Ranney away with him. In time Mr. Ranney became Harvester's financial expert, was given credit for Harvester's lucid financial statements, became (and still...
Today tall, iron-grey haired and handsome, George Ranney (along with many a socialite McCormick, Wendell. Morton. Palmer) has an apartment at No. 1260 Astor Street and plays middling and sometimes mildly profane golf with his friend Melvin Traylor of Chicago's First National, of which he is a director and member of the executive committee. But unlike many a Chicago tycoon who got drenched in the downpour of Depression odium, George Ranney has come through with his reputation unaspersed. Last week Mr. Ranney discreetly held his peace while Continental directors waited until the RFC's approval should...
...Fortnight ago when Alexander Legge, strolling in the garden of his home at suburban Hinsdale, Ill. was stricken dead by a heart attack, he left vacant the presidency of International Harvester Co. Last week Harvester's Chairman Cyrus H. McCormick said to his directors: "Among the many things for which our company must always be grateful to Alexander Legge is the fact that he built up and bequeathed to us a strong organization of able, trained and loyal men." The directors had no difficulty in deciding which of those men should succeed Mr. Legge. They named Addis Emmet MeKinstry...
...ladder and climbed up to the Duke's window, calling "Where is Your Grace?" There was no answer, much smoke and belching flame. Hours later a policeman found burned to a crisp in "The Heronry's" pantry all that was left of Prince Louis. Said Mr. McCormick to newsmen: "I think the Duke, blinded by smoke, missed his way to the stairs, blundered into a corner room and was overcome. When the floor was burned through the body must have fallen into the pantry below...