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...settle down again, accept a civil job as interpreter. Salama got his first week's pay, has managed him and their large family with shrewish boisterousness ever since. As head of the Arabic university, commandant of Goundam, interpreter in many a trial and on expeditions against the Tuaregs, Pere Yakouba added more laurels to his grizzling crown. Now most famed but no longer most respected citizen in Timbuctoo, he himself is not sure he has come the right way after all. Rich by native standards, he has a large mud palace, a large black wife, a large dusky family...
...primitive and facile movement of rhythm. In the beautiful fourth Ballade of Chopin he exceeded himself in the passionate reiteration of the main theme in the middle section; also his final number, the Legends of St. Francis Walking on the Waves, brought forth the necessary brilliance and virtuosity that Pere Liszt always demands. The Sonata Appassionata and all the classics were lacking in mature understanding and finesse of technique...
...York Central for an annual rental of $2,000,000. and bought up Chicago Union Stock Yards. He had a hand in building up Bessemer &; Lake Erie, which was sold to U. S. Steel Corp. At one time or another he has owned some 46 carriers including Ann Harbor, Pere Marquette. Denver &; Salt Lake. His son Norman helped found the Wartime Lafayette Escadrille, was killed in France in 1916. Mr. &; Mrs. Prince gave $200,000 to the Washington National Cathedral for a memorial chapel where their son's body now lies (TIME, April 29, 1929). Frederick Henry Prince...
...since his college days at the University of Minnesota and Harvard Law School has made his way by personal brilliance. He joined the conservative Manhattan law fir in of Cravath & Henderson in 1916 and entered private banking because as a lawyer he helped Seligman & Co. with railroad reorganizations (Pere Marquette, Frisco, International Great Northern, M. K. T.). Yet, no stuffed-shirt, he leans toward the liberal side on economic questions, is familiar with (and discourses ably on) a wide range of modern economic thought. Last week accompanied by Mrs. Bailie (a professional landscape architect, daughter of Lawyer Henderson) their three...
...Chesapeake Corp. and Morgan & Co. floated a $48,000,000 bond issue so that Chesapeake Corp. could buy the C. & O. stock held by the Nickel Plate and the Van Sweringen holding companies. But when the C. & O. asked permission to get control of the Erie and the Pere Marquette, the I. C. C. refused as regarded the Erie. Seeing they were getting nowhere, the Van Sweringens decided to set up a master holding company that would bring together all their railroad interests till such time as the roads could be consolidated. Hence, Alleghany Corp. Into this pot they poured...