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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then as wife. She was obliged, for lack of money, to use precious but musty draperies for clothes. she left for a "vacation," and her husband promptly took an ad interim companion. There followed divorce, his marriage to a Montenegrin dancer, Olga Milanoff, for a span his mistress, a second burning of his hill house, a third building thereof. Who's Who in America this year dropped him from its roster of reputable notables...
...Called Honorable because he was the second son of Viscount Amberly, Philosopher Russell is famed as mathematician, radical, pacifist. One of "twelve men" who understood Einstein's Relativity Theory, he wrote The A B C of Relativity (1925). Last week he said he did not understand the "last five pages" of the Einstein "Coherent Field Theory," latest Einstein hypothesis, printed on six pages (TIME...
...Cleveland had prided itself on being the largest bank between New York and Chicago. Also until last week the Peoples Wayne County Bank had prided itself on being the largest in Detroit. Now the status of both has changed. The Union Trust Co. of Cleveland has become the second largest between New York and Chicago; the Peoples Wayne County Bank is now but a part of the largest bank in Detroit. Largest between New York and Chicago and largest in Detroit will be a new bank, announced last week with the merger of the Peoples Wayne County Bank, the First...
Electric. When the same man is chairman of two companies in similar lines and one of these companies owns a 13% interest in the other, besides having an agreement to give it financial service, a merger in which the first company offers to acquire the remaining stock of the second is not astounding news. Last week this condition occurred when Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell's Electric Bond and Share Co. offered to exchange its stock for Electric Investors, Inc. While Electric Investors, Inc. is a strict holding company with 87% of its investments in utilities, Electric Bond and Share...
Members of the National Association of Life Underwriters, faced by the usual question of how and where to sell, were apparently still groggy from the recent topping of the $100,000,000,000 mark in total life insurance. Titles of addresses were: "The Market for the Second Hundred Billion," "The Conservation of Human Life in the Era of the Second Hundred Billion," "Creating the Second Hundred Billion," "Conserving the First While We Create the Second Hundred Billion," "Selling to Women in the Era of the Second Hundred Billion," "The Second Hundred Billion Salesman: He Faces East...