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Replied Mrs. Gann: "I did decline. . . . Out of consideration for my own country and my brother I feel that the proper thing for me to do at all times is to decline."
Gov. Roosevelt, who had carefully avoided Prohibition in his own speech, characterized the Wickersham proposal as "speculative" and moved across the ballroom to take a seat among the Dry Southern Governors. Observers got the impression that, as a Presidential candidate for 1932, he had already commenced to "play safe" on...
First person to take out a special air policy was Horatio Barber. In 1912 he went to Lloyd's in London to insure himself against liability to passengers who might travel in a fleet of five planes which he owned. Lloyd's knew nothing of the risks, told him to write out his own policy, being just to them and himself. That led to an affiliation with Lloyd's which, after the War, distracted him from flying. Now, 54, he is in Manhattan, president of Barber & Baldwin, Inc., underwriting affiliates with Aero Underwriters Corp...
Inventor Igor I. Sikorsky was in Europe, last week when the deal was announced. If any one had told him six years ago when, a Russian immigrant, he founded his U. S. company, that in 1929 it would bring $2,500,000, he would have believed it. He has never...
The trouble started one year ago, when Lord Kylsant ordered the issuance of another $10,000,000 worth of debenture shares. Lord St. Davids was and is one of the two debenture trustees, the other being, until last week, the Duke of Abercorn. Lord St. Davids was not informed of...