Word: present
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After they have decided what they think about the curtain, and inspected the broad shallow horseshoe of boxes to see how many and which Insulls, McCormicks, Ryersons, Fairbankses, Fieldses, Cranes. Swifts, Thornes and family jewels are present, Chicago first-nighters will see the black-haired girl and her white camels vanish upward (the stage ceiling is supported by a 73½ foot steel truss, the largest ever used, capable of carrying more than 11,000,000 pounds). After Conductor Giorgio Polacco has become a shadow in a bowl of shadow, his shirtfront and the tip of his nose touched with...
...Richard Whitney, head of Richard Whitney & Co., was brother of George Whitney, Morgan Partner. Back of his action lay a noontime meeting held at No. 23 Wall St., Home of the House of Morgan. Although an excited Hearst reporter would have it that the Head of the House was present, actually, John Pierpont Morgan was in Europe. It was Partner Thomas W. Lament with whom conferred Charles E. Mitchell, National City Bank; William C. Potter, Guaranty Trust; Albert H. Wiggin, Chase National Bank; Seward Prosser, Bankers Trust. These men controlled resources of more than $6,000,000,000. They...
Tuesday brought also a quota of cheerful utterances. Said T. B. Macauley, president of the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (one of the largest of institutional stock-buyers) : "The present crisis in the stock market squeezes out inflation caused by speculation, and we have taken opportunity largely to increase our holdings, and we are still buying." Said Chase National's Albert Wiggin: "None of the corporations or institutions I am connected with is selling stocks at this time. We are buying." President Hoover said that U. S. Industry was on a sound basis. The banking group also...
...since the present Pope entered the Vatican has the College of Cardinals had its full quota. To fill the vacancies would be: 1) expensive, since Cardinal allowances (except for U. S. Cardinals) are paid by the Pope; 2) embarrassing, for there are many more candidates than places; 3) perhaps impolitic, for already the non-Italian Cardinals outnumber...
Pension Expert is a very real title to Mr. Sayre. Seven years after leaving Harvard in 1898, he was Pension Expert of the Carnegie Foundation. Now he is pension adviser to the U. S. Federal Reserve system, to the Church of England, as well as to the Episcopal Church. Present assets of the Protestant Episcopal Church Pension Fund are $25,000,000. Offices are at No. 14 Wall St., Manhattan. Income on the Fund supplies the pension money. To become eligible for pensioning, an Episcopal minister must be 68, retired or disabled. The average pension: $800 per year...