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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. John R. Cudahy, 46, of Chicago, meat packing scion; in Dwight, Ill.; of heart disease...
...currency would obviously be for the bank to organize an investment trust, and that is what Chicago's Continental-Illinois Bank Trust Co., largest U. S. bank outside Manhattan, did last week. President was Arthur Reynolds, who is board chairman of Continental-Illinois. Vice-president was James R. Leavell, also a Continental-Illinois vice president. The directorate included George M. Reynolds, Stanley Field, Charles F. Glore, D. R. McLennan, Eugene M. Stevens, Edward F. Swift, F. Edson White. Christened Continental Chicago Corp., and with an initial financing of $65,000,000, the new company was designed for an ultimate...
...lives in the elaborate red house on East Avenue, Rochester, N. Y., who sometimes strolls on its multi-shrubbed and flowered grounds, is Edward R. Rosenberg. Mr. Rosenberg takes much pride in his house. He also takes pride in his daughter Suzanne who last year made a triumphant debut into Rochester society, and in his son, Edward Jr. who is learning his father's business. Mr. Rosenberg is president of Fashion Park Associates, Inc. Because of Rochestrian George Eastman many U. S. citizens when they think of Rochester think of Eastman kodaks, Eastman music. But fully-informed...
Thus it is that august Britannica's list of contributors for the 14th Edition includes, besides Tunney, and besides the greatest scholars on scholarly subjects, such arresting names as Lon Chaney, Edward F. Albee, Alice Foote MacDougall; Henry Ford, President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, Samuel R. ("Roxy") Rothafel, Lincoln Clark Andrews (U. S. Prohibition Chief, 1925-27), George Jean Nathan, Jesse L. Lasky, George Eastman, etc., etc., etc. (Contributors are discoverable in a list printed with the introduction. Articles are only initialed...
There is a heading for "Robots," the word adopted from Karel Capek's play R. U. R. for any machine functioning almost humanly...