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...Their approval shall not be necessary in or to validate any decision or management by Nevin," said Rodman Wanamaker 's $100,000,000 will last week (TIME, Mar. 19). "Their" meant seven managing trustees. "Nevin" was William L. Nevin, lately obscure youthful lawyer, now by inheritance merchant princeling. "Nevin" will henceforth manage, irrespective of benefit of experience of seven advisers...
...Literary designation, in Wanamaker advertising, of John Wanamaker, founder of the department stores. *In his 25-page will, Republican Rodman Wanamaker forgot to mention his Philadelphia Record, Democratic party organ...
Died. Lewis Rodman Wanamaker, 65, son of the late John Wanamaker, urbane president of the John Wanamaker Stores, patron of art, aviation, exploration, director of many large corporations, president of the First Penny Savings Bank of Philadelphia, one of the most heavily insured men in the world ($7,500,000); of uremia; in Atlantic City, N. J. Two hundred prominent men of England, France, Japan, and the U. S. were invited to act as honorary pallbearers. Among the messages and cables received by the family was one from King George...
...year ago, at the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs, the active eyes of Jesse Isidor Strauss espied a bright red mixing bowl.* Today at R. H. Macy's Manhattan department store, of which Jesse Isidor Strauss is president also at John Wanamaker's Manhattan & Philadelphia department stores, of which Lewis Rodman Wanamaker is president, bright red enamel mixing bowls are on exhibit & sale...
Perhaps Colonel Green does have strange whims?most wealthy men with scientific inclinations are considered "queer" by their neIghbors. But, more likely, Colonel Green's newest whim will make him a patron of U. S. aviation as famed as Rodman Wanamaker, Raymond Orteig, Daniel Guggenheim, Henry & Edsel Ford...