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Died. Alexander Smith Cochran, 53, of New York City, carpet tycoon, yachtman, onetime "richest bachelor," divorced husband of Ganna Walska (now Mrs. Harold F. McCormick); at Saranac Lake...
...Arthur Brisbane commented, of course, on the contest. The traditional Brisbanality at such a juncture would have been to the effect that the noblest thing Miss Universe could now do would be to go home and marry some good man and be a good wife and exercise woman's richest function, Motherhood. Instead, Mr. Brisbane Brisbantered...
...know a couple of old Salvation Army Captains, Englishmen, who, during the Indian famine of twenty-five years ago, fed three times the number of starving human beings that Hoover fed during the World War. And these unknown famine relief agents did not have the richest nation on earth sending food to them by the shipload and shoveling out money by the barrel to maintain an enormous organization...
Born in Bordeaux, France, Stephen Girard arrived in the U. S. as a ship's cabin boy. At odd times he was merchant, mariner, banker. When he died he was considered one of the richest men in the U. S. Blind in his right eye from an early accident, he used, in the 1820's, to wear his hair long, and tied into a short pigtail. Always he wore a white neckcloth and a Revolution-style coat. He left his fortune to charity and to his college. His beautiful insane wife died before...
...steel interests were expanded to include an "alliance" with the iron interests of another famed Clevelander, William G. Mather, whose Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. joined the large group of "Eaton interests." Oldest mining company in the Lake Superior region. Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. iron ore properties ranked with the richest in the country. Its subsidiary properties include a railroad, a fleet of 24 ships, a power company, bituminous coal deposits, and several hundred thousand acres of timber lands. Thus Broker Eaton's various steel companies were assured of ample raw material, and Cleveland's Steel Eatons and Iron Mathers were...