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...story was one of those commonplace scandals so often current in this day. Told in public by lawyers for Mrs. Doris M. Kresge who is suing her husband, Sebastian Spering Kresge, for a divorce, it related an alleged instance of misconduct performed in Manhattan by S. S. Kresge and one Gladys Ardelle Fish. But the shareholder was certain that the charge was untrue. Himself morally immaculate, he had made sure that the head of the company in which he was about to invest was ethically as well as financially unimpeachable. He had discovered that Mr. Kresge was well known...
...York Stock Exchange trading in Kresge Common. The opening sale had been made at 71½, the closing sale at 72⅛. The next day's transactions were even more baffling to the student of humanity. In spite of further publicity to the alleged immoralities of Sebastian Spering Kresge, Kresge Common had closed...
Response to the League's new department of moderation was quick? so quick that some observers imagined the bigwigs had known in advance what would happen. To the League came Sebastian Spering Kresge (5¢ & 10¢ stores) of Detroit and Manhattan, long a League admirer, and declared that $500,000 of a 25 million-dollar charity fund which he lately set aside, was at Publicist Cherrington's disposal for 1928. The League had said that it wanted a million for 1928. Mr. Kresge promised to get the rest at once from fellow businessmen. Within 20 minutes of the opening...
...Sebastian Spering Kresge think Prohibition worth $500,000 in one lump? Cynics might suspect that it was because people who spend dimes and nickels in saloons are more likely to spend them in nickel-&-dime stores if there are no saloons...
Said Hearst-Colyumist Arthur Brisbane about Sebastian Spering Kresge's gift...