Word: sages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come near to succeeding. He now controls five newspapers-two Amarillo dailies (plus a Sunday edition), two others in nearby Lubbock, and the one his father Ed, the late famed Sage of Potato Hill, left him at Atchison, Kans. He controls four Texas radio stations. His headquarters are in Amarillo and there he organized and now operates an annual Mother-in-Law Day, attended last year by Eleanor Roosevelt. His own mother-in-law lives with him, his wife & daughter. He has helped dedicate Amarillo's new post office, given Postmaster Farley an Arabian saddle horse, acted as chief...
Rensselaer was almost wiped out by fire in 1904. It was resurrected by Mrs. Russell Sage (who gave it $1,000,000) and by an anonymous old man whose money made the institution what it is today but who for more than a third of a century has been known to Rensselaer men only as "The Builder." Rensselaer's alumni have long speculated about "The Builder's" identity. This month Rensselaer's busy President William Otis Hotchkiss at long last told them. Because he died last January (at 73), his family consented to let it be known...
...that "he has recently built with his own money 25 houses for about $2,000 each in Uvalde, the like of which cost FHA one-third more"? I understand that FHA does not build houses, merely insures mortgages on them. ... All of which is no reflection on the Sage of Uvalde...
When he was 15, Arthur Flatto began buying stocks out of his allowance (first was U. S. Rubber). In 1929 he got into Western Union, at 240, later bought more. Russell Sage once said that only once in a lifetime did a man have the chance to enrich himself by buying Western Union below $50 a share, and when that chance came, Arthur Flatto took it and held on. Last week he held 1,350 shares of Western Union, selling...
...chain of circumstances that discredited Russell Sage, angered Arthur Flatto and many another Western Union stockholder, is similar to that with which railroads are familiar: revenues down and costs up, largely for reasons beyond the management's control (see below). But Arthur Flatto believed that the management had "failed to function properly in producing profits," three months ago started rounding up proxies to oppose the management slate. No mere corporate troublemaker, he spent $4,450 out of his own pocket convincing other dissatisfied shareholders that they were entitled to minority representation "just like the Supreme Court." This proposition Messrs...