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Last week President Hoover parted with his closest, ablest private secretary. George Akerson departed for New York to take his $30,000-per-year job with Paramount-Publix Corp. White House newsgatherers gave George Akerson a farewell present: a large engraved cocktail shaker...
...when Charles Michael Schwab, board chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp., said those words last week at a Manhattan meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute, his auditors were not greatly startled. Though they knew "Charley" Schwab for the most unregenerate optimist in U. S. Industry, a notorious backslapper, hand shaker and well wisher, they also knew that what he said really did reflect the modern concept of business in dealing with critical economic upheavals and serious unemployment...
...Singer Sargent that "portrait painting, my boy, is a pimp's profession." One portrait, however, that he thoroughly enjoyed was that of faithful James Miller, ancient, honorable red-nosed steward of Princeton's Ivy Club. Because Artist Lintott painted faithful James smiling quizzically over a silver cocktail shaker, timorous club trustees refused to accept the picture, feared that its exhibition might bring Princeton and the Ivy Club into disrepute, suggested the substitution of a coffee pot. Artist Lintott, who had never seen James or any other able steward shake coffee, refused. Last week both portrait and silver shaker...
...other property, and to enter into such other transactions as may be from time to time determined," its domain is expected to be real estate rather than railroads. The Van Sweringens began as real estate operators in Cleveland, grew famed through their deals in the expensive and fashionable Shaker Heights district. The new $75,000,000 Van Sweringen Corp. will acquire their present holdings in the Cleveland Union Terminals Co. project and will also have 500,000 shares of Alleghany stock, presumably personal holdings of the Van Sweringens...
...York Herald Tribune. Reporters were held at arm's length by a hotel detective. Good Friend Frank Waterman Stearns was present as a smiling but non-communicative buffer. One man. seeking an audience but turned away, sent up by a waiter to the Coolidge suite a silver salt shaker but no explanation. Mr. Coolidge was puzzled...