Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popular preference for acrobatics instead of music that started Mr. Ringling, youngest of seven Ringling Bros.* on his career as circus-man. Back in the late '70s, the brothers organized a concert troupe, discovered that the addition first of a contortionist, later of a trapeze act, materially increased box office business. Then came a menagerie in the shape of one hyena, to the laughter of which was later added the roar of a lion and the leaps of a kangaroo. It was not until he had been for several seasons a circus man that Mr. Ringling even saw an elephant...
There is little of the traditional show man in Mr. Ringling except that he is sartorially on the same plane as New York's Mayor Walker. He is the owner of various oil-wells and railroads, of a Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, mansion, a 46-acre estate at Alpine, N. J., a Venetian palazzo at Sarasota, Fla. At Sarasota he has a museum, but not in the circus sense of the word. It is filled with Gainsboroughs, Romneys, Corots, Tintorettos, and works of many another classicist, but no moderns. Last June he bought Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross, price...
...Mr. Ringling is now in his sixties. Said he: "Circus people are hard-working and thrifty. They all save up to have homes. . . . They can't get drunk even if they wanted...
Tracing the electrical activity of J. P. Morgan & Co. would not be difficult if the matter could be expressed in terms of Mr. Morgan personally exchanging bags of gold for turbines and transmission systems. Unfortunately, however, the utility field does not lend itself to such simplification. The House of Morgan is not sole owner of any of the utility companies in which it is interested; its holdings are usually no more than a substantial minority, not including an operating control; and if it chooses to regard itself as investor in many companies but as manager of none, such a position...
...were: 1) That J. P. Morgan & Co. has undoubtedly become acutely interested in light and power; 2) That in nine months it has made swift and certain progress; 3) But that the public utility situation, even in New York State alone, should certainly not be interpreted in terms of Mr. Morgan's throwing the switches, breaking the currents...