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...President Roosevelt last week stepped Career Diplomat Sheldon Whitehouse up from Minister to Guatemala to Minister to Colombia. An urbane gentleman with wavy hair and elegant manners. Minister Whitehouse was educated at Eton and Yale, got into the Foreign Service as private secretary to the late great Whitelaw Reid when the New York Tribune publisher was Ambassador to Great Britain. As counsel of the Paris embassy in 1927 he was roundly flayed in Congress when it was discovered that sleuths had been sent after New York's Mayor Walker as that playboy took his fun in Paris...
...years of history. But not since the trust-forming days of William Bateman Leeds, the one & only tin plate king, has there been a tin plate industry, separate and distinct. "Tin Plate" Leeds and his fabulous friends, Judge William Moore, promoter extraordinary, and Daniel Gray ("Czar") Reid, tossed their tin plate trust into T. S. Steel Corp. at a price which made the Elder John Pierpont Morgan groan. What they did keep was the tin can trust. Today most tin plate is made by steel companies and most tin plate is used by can companies. For American...
Three years after joining the Tribune Reporter Draper was night city editor. In another two years he was private secretary to the editor. He was a great favorite of the editor's mother, the late Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. As a foreign correspondent he won fame and was supremely happy. For ten years, 1915-25, he directed the Tribune's foreign bureaus from headquarters in London. He covered the War, the Peace, the Fascist march on Rome. He adopted and has retained the attitude and habits of an English gentleman. His neighbor and good friend was Ramsay MacDonald...
...problem of Germany's short term loans. Before leaving he gave an out-of-the-ordinary going-away party: a private view before the public exhibition of his collection of Forain paintings, etchings and lithographs. John Pierpont Morgan attended. So did John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Adolph Ochs, Ogden Reid, Owen D. Young, Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul Cravath, Arthur Curtiss James, Arthur Brisbane, Lily Pons. There...
Like the little auk, the murre feeds on ocean Crustacea, starves inland. Last week Dr. William Reid Blair, director of New York's Bronx Zoo, thought the murres' death flight might be caused by a cyclical failure in their food supply...