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...will mean, he thinks, the end of the road, the death of the American way. When he talks of this nefarious possibility, his big eyebrows twitch, his face darkens. Said he last week: "The Republican Party stands today where the Continental Army stood at Valley Forge, and if Haym Salomon and Robert Morris could empty their purses to keep that army alive, so can we." (Few days later, Governor Arthur Horace James used the same language in a speech at Indianapolis...
Five years ago smart, eccentric Irving Salomon, president of Michigan City, Ind.'s Royal Metal Manufacturing Co., looked at his annual business (manufacturing chrome-plated metal tubular furniture) and found it about right: $100,000 profit on $1,500,000 gross. He decided to hold it right there, to take no business over that amount, never to be lured into the risks and discomforts of expansion. Through Depression II there were no layoffs at his $580,000 plant. And every year since 1934 Royal's net has just topped...
Haydn: Symphony No. 98 in B Flat Major (Salomon No. 4) (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Another first recording, competently performed...
Typical Salop issues: At $1.89, a $5 book on American birds, a $3.50 book on insects; at $1.48, a $5 volume on American glass. From Publisher Horace Liveright he once bought a book called Orpheus, a scholarly study of religion by French Archeologist Salomon Reinach. Reduced to $1.49 from its original price of $5, it sold around 35,000 copies...
...first firm to make equipment trust certificates a safe investment, and as co-financiers of Western Pacific, Missouri Pacific and many a big industrial concern like Texas Co., genial Hearn Streat moved up through the ranks. He became a junior partner in 1920, same year Blair absorbed William Salomon & Co. In 1929, when Blair merged with the security affiliate of Bank of America (Manhattan's, not San Francisco's) to become Bancamerica-Blair Corp. Partner Streat's hair was thinning, his waist thickening, his friends spreading from coast to coast...