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Such was the technique of Edward Prentiss Costigan, when he resigned last week from the Federal Tariff Commission. He had served longer on it than any other member. A Colorado lawyer and mine-owner, he was appointed in 1917 by President Wilson, when the Commission was invented to "take the tariff out of politics...
...Cleveland, the Orchestra began its tenth season under Nikolai Sokolov, its first and only conductor, under Adella Prentiss Hughes, its first and only manager. Twenty pairs of concerts were announced with such famed soloists as Josef Hofmann, Harold Samuel, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Paul Kochanski, Albert Spalding. Maurice Ravel will be guest conductor...
...Manhattan, at teeming Seventh Ave. & 49th St., the sedan of E. Parmalee Prentiss, son-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, plunged toward the curb, mounted the sidewalk, sent theatre crowds screaming and scurrying. Cause: Chauffeur James Reading dead of heart failure...
...Reverend P. S. Phalen '08 of the Unitarian Church of West Newton, and then the bridge will be presented by Henry Hornblower on behalf of the donors, former associates of the late Secretary of War. The donors are: Henry Hornblower, J. J. Phalen, E. L. Geary, J. W. Prentiss '98, H. N. Sweet, C. T. Lovering '02. Ralph Hornblower '11, J. A. Fayne '07, J. S. Dunstean '98, H. C. Sierck, P. B. Skinner, P. W. Brown, A. R. Meyer '10, J. H. Wainwright, and O. E. Weller...
...Percenters. The Ford company paid 100% and more dividends for years. Mr. Prentiss cited two other 100 percenters- Timken Brothers who in 1901 built a $100,000 steel mill at St. Louis; Sterling Products Co. of Wheeling, W. Va., makers of Castoria and Dr. Caldwell's Syrup of Pepsin and other proprietary medicines that give yearly profits of $2,500,000. Ford Credit. "I'd say that the Ford Motor Car Co. as a credit proposition equals the United States Steel Corp., the Standard Oil Co., General Electric arid General Motors."-Mr. Prentiss...