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Meantime another old silk family, neither weavers nor spinners but merchants, became convinced that what Belding needed was new management. The commission house of E. Gerli & Co. already owned a small interest in Belding, and as the stock dropped they bought & bought. Paolino Gerli, general manager of his family house, is the swart, able young head of the International Silk Guild. Belding stockholders were soon convinced that Paolino Gerli knew something about their business. High Belding executives were shuffled around until Mr. Gerli finally picked Raymond Charles Kramer for president...
Untired by his activities in Chicago, Senator Imai then led his compatriots to the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan, prepared to hobnob with his great customers, Paolino Gerli, Emil J. Stehli, Ward Cheney, E. Irving Hanson (Mallinson silks), Paul C. Debry (Duplan silks) and many another...
...Japanese earthquake in 1923, Japanese silk deliveries were stopped for two months. But Gerli & Co. arranged to ship silk from Kobe almost immediately and this was the real opening of a silk market outside of Yokohama. Emanuel Gerli is 73. Active spokesman for the firm in his nephew, Paolino Gerli, 41, a vice president. He came to the U. S. from Italy in 1905, later went to Japan where he dealt in silk for his own account from 1919 to 1921. In 1922 he joined E. Gerli & Co. Although the firm is" primarily a commission house it makes rayon...
...held the account for him. George F. Breen, famed as a "market maker." Harry Content ("most cold-blooded man in Wall Street"). Arthur William Cutten, once Chicago's best known bull. Marquis de San Miguel. Herbert L. Dillon of Eastman, Dillon &; Co. Stnyvesant Fish. Bertha, Joseph and Paolino Gerli (silk). Thomas Montgomery Howell, Chicago grain operator, who last summer cornered 70%, of the visible corn supply, squeezed shorts, said: "I go along, ask no quarter, don't give any." Coleman F. Madden, known on race tracks as "Handsome Coley," who recently told friends he "preferred Wall Street...
...Truck" Miller, "Honeyboy" Finnegan, "Newsboy" Brown, "Gloomy Gil" Dobie, Fielding "Hurry-Up Yost, "Cannonball" Crabtree (who will be seen in action when Florida comes to Cambridge a week hence), Paolino Uczudum, the Bounding Basque of the Pyrenees, are some of the more common handles that come to mind. Time Out is just waiting, though, for the day when Harvard will have a star who can be called "Rain Or" Shine...