Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a resolution directing the Federal Water Power Commission to send to the Senate any protests against the lease of Cumberland Falls, Ky., to the public utility interests of Chicago's Samuel Insull; likewise protests against permitting Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West to participate as a member of the Commission in a consideration of this or other leases...
Other Possibilities. Outstanding among Chicago's industrialists, of course, is utilityman Samuel Insull. Possibly the baseball and gum interests of William Wrigley Jr., the stock market speculations of Arthur W. Cutten, the taxicab past of John D. Hertz (see BUSINESS) make them less available. No such considerations, however, would arise in connection with Thomas E. Wilson, packing house (Wilson & Co.) president, or Thomas E. Donnelley, "biggest" printer. Ideal from the standpoint of public spirit would be Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears Roebuck, famed philanthropist (Chicago Industrial Museum, Jewish colonization in Russia, Negro schools and Negro...
Vilma Banky's real name is Banky Vilma. She was born in Nagydorog, Hungary, and has a sister named Gizi. She had been making pictures for European companies when Samuel Goldwyn saw her picture in a photographer's showcase in Budapest. The people she worked for didn't want her to meet Goldwyn and kept her out of his way. He was about to get on a train when her manager ran up, seized the magnate's arm, urged him back to where the actress, her beautiful face expressing suspense, was standing in the drafty waiting...
Docket number 36 is the Parke Club (Jones, Morgan) versus the Darrow Club (Shaw, Goldenburg). The meeting will be at 474 Broadway with Samuel Joseph 3L as chief justice...
Benjamin Hill & Co.: Samuel S. Fontaine, onetime cub reporter under the late great Col. Henry Watterson; for more than 25 years Financial Editor of the New York World...