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Round 3. President Edward G. Seubert and the directors of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana voted unanimously to support Col. Stewart, asked stockholders to do the same. The majority of employe-stock-holders are supporting Col. Stewart, either because they feel that he has made the company prosper or because they fear for their jobs. Standard Oil of Indiana profits for 1928 were estimated at $80,000,000, or about $9 a share. At the end of this round, Col. Stewart was a 2 to 1 betting favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rockefeller v. Stewart | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...might have learned that Founder Eugene Grasselli's family had been chemists for 400 years, since first they made gunpowder and perfume in Torno, Italy. He could not have learned, however, that the company would move to Cleveland after the Civil War. and would there prosper mightily producing fertilizers, zinc metal, zinc dust, explosives, aspirin, until finally, under Grandson Thomas Saxton Grasselli, it would have 22 factories and assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Friable Messes | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...order. I promise to practice my religion openly and consistently, but without ostentation, and to so conduct myself in public affairs, and in the exercise of public virtue as to reflect nothing but credit upon the Holy Church, to the end that she may flourish and our country prosper to the greater honor and glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Great & Fake Oath | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Carmen. Made in Spain and directed by a Frenchman, this is the best of a half dozen film versions of Prosper Merimée's mighty story. The reason is Raquel Meller (pronounced May-aire), the sorceress whose rich voice, ink-black locks, hands like moonstruck faces bewitched Manhattanites at $27.50 a head, two springs ago (TIME, April 26, 1926). She is a Carmen incarnate, and not a little carnal. No wonder poor Don Jose (Louis Lerch) became a thief and a murderer! No wonder the audience forgot that the photography was a trifle blinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Invasion | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Week by week my admiration for TIME increases. May it live long and prosper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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