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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. William Patterson MacCracken Jr., onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, to be counsel for Goodyear Zeppelin Corp., counsel for Western Air Express, Board Chairman of New York. Rio & Buenos Aires Airways...
Radio Music Co. has another function. It intends to discover new music, encourage new composers. It is tired of jazz, wants melody. Its President Edwin Claude Mills† last week said: "We are not interested in 'reform.' We are not trying to get ourselves into such a rarified atmosphere that nobody could live in it with us. . . . We have had perhaps too much of jazz and it seems about time for some one to assume leadership in a movement away from the cacophony of most music of the day. I think we should get back to melody...
...Hollywood are the new $75,000,000 studios of Fox Film Corp, Throughout the U. S. are some 1,200 theatres controlled by Fox Theatres Corp. In almost every country are Fox distributing agencies. In sole command of the Fox organization was, until last week, William Fox who from an investment of $1,667 built the entire structure, amassed a personal fortune once estimated at over...
...New York Curb listed 1,227,392 preferred shares and 7,477,392 common shares of Blue Ridge Corp., investment trust sponsored by Harrison Williams and by Goldman, Sachs & Co. As the same date is more memorable as opening day for greatest market crash in history, unfortunate has been Blue Ridge's Curb career. In retrospect, indeed, the history both of Blue Ridge and of Shenandoah Corp., companion investment trust formed by the same interests, appears somewhat ironic. In August, Blue Ridge had announced a policy of exchanging its shares for shares of other corporations, had thus indirectly endorsed...
Married. Mary Stinson Pillsbury, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Charles Stinson Pillsbury (flour); and Oswald Bates Lord of New York; at Minneapolis; on her parents' 28th wedding anniversary...