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Ambitious Charles Hayden made it his habit to get to work at 8:30 a.m., systematically budgeted every day's time. Master of every brokerage trick, he drove himself unsparingly through the corporate intricacies of rubber, nickel, public utilities, sugar and oil. He amazed associates by his instantaneous decisions, nettled callers by clipping their conversation short when he foresaw their missions. Partner Stone was silent from the start. Banker Hayden never cultivated an assistant. Until he was stricken last month, he ran his own labyrinthine business by himself, piled up 89 directorships, 58 of which he still held...
There are also a number of "pessimistic personal statements muttered by members of the Class. 'I never married, but I can't see that I saved a nickel by it. 'My four years at Harvard were wasted. I still can't keep the top stud in my dress shirt'. 'No spik Englies...
Died. Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, 67, last of Cleveland's realty and railroad-owning Van Sweringen Brothers; of heart disease; while riding to Hoboken, N. J. from Cleveland where he boarded a train of the Nickel Plate road, which the brothers built into the largest privately held U. S. rail system, nearly lost during Depression...
Edward Ballard had a gambler's impulsive temperament, but in running his casino he was shrewd and businesslike. No local resident was ever permitted in his gambling rooms, no liquor was ever allowed, all patrons had to wear evening dress, no employe was permitted to wager a nickel. One year Gamester Ballard made $1,000,000. He bought the West Baden Springs Hotel, and later, with a Detroit gambler, Robert ("Silver Bob") Alexander, also opened a gambling place at Miami. After a time Ballard withdrew from the Association. In the same era he plunged into the circus business...
...champagne did not mean ebb tide for beer. Last week The American Brewer estimated the 1936 U. S. consumption at 53,000,000 bbls., enough to give each voter in last week's election 388 bottles. Best since Repeal, 1936 is no banner beer year. In 1914, nickel beer enabled U. S. brewers to sell 66,933,394 bbls., an all-time high...