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...hard little mints shaped like and labeled Life Savers. Pushy Roy Allen and canny Ed Noble bought the idea and name in 1913 with money partly borrowed from Partner Allen's mother. They transferred operations to a loft in Manhattan, promoted Life Savers into a $4,000,000-per-year enterprise, which Ed Noble now calls "a happy, whimsical little business...
...barnstorming cash into a Florida peat company. Most newsworthy of present peat mossers are Charles Silber, a Newark, N. J. attorney, and Giles Price Wetherill, a Philadelphia socialite.* Last week in Cherryneld. Maine, they declared their newly formed American Peat Co. ready to dig for the $16,000,000-per-year U. S. peat trade now monopolized by importers from Sweden and Germany...
...family, Justice McCook slipped away from the State constitutional convention which he was attending, reached Manhattan at 1 a. m., sat down at home to inspect a complaint against one James J. Hines, alleged conspirator and partner in the operation of the sprawling city's $100,000,000-per-year "policy" or "numbers" racket. Justice McCook signed a warrant for Hines's arrest...
...goggling bulldog sat by the goggled driver; the mannish post-War girl and her fox terrier trotted side by side. Calvin Coolidge's white collie Rob Roy, Katharine Cornell's flop-eared cocker Flush in The Barretts of Wimpole Street started fashions. But from year to year the $75.000,000-per-year dog business finds Westminster's best a prime fashion factor, lor the choice of the No. 1 judge in the No. 1 dog show tends to become the people's choice. Before John Bates made his style-setting choice, the dogs judged best...
...Post and the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram, which were last week running featured Frank Hague series. Among the facts dug up from old investigations was that John Milton was Frank Hague's personal banker. John Milton's checks, for instance, paid for the $6,250-per-year mayor's $125,000 estate. The mayor always reimbursed his lawyer in cash. When investigators started to probe John Milton's own affairs, he blandly declared that he had just decided to retire and had unfortunately destroyed all his records. Then he laughed...