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...Every big businessman, every news editor and a good portion of the public have long been thoroughly aware of Ivy Ledbetter Lee as the highest priced pressagent in the land, the suave representative (at one time or another) of Schwab, Chrysler, the Armours, Harvard University, Princeton, Thompson-Starrett Co., Portland Cement, the Guggenheims, the Red Cross, the Republic of Poland, New York's Interborough subway, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Waldorf-Astoria and-longest and most notably-the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Rockefellers...
...loans provided two-thirds of the Hillside capital. The other one-third came from Starrett Bros. & Eken Inc., building contractors, and Nathan Straus Jr., who provided the land, an old farmsite on the Boston Post Road, at a fraction of its appraised value...
Louis Jay Horowitz, board chairman of Thompson-Starrett Co Sc.D...
Died. Colonel William Aiken Starrett, 54, builder of skyscrapers, president of Starrett Corp.; after a series of apoplectic strokes; in Madison, N. J. One of five brothers, all builders or architects, he successively founded Thompson-Starrett Co. (construction), Starrett & Van Vleck architects). Starrett Bros. & Eken, builders of the Empire State Building and nucleus of his holding company, Starrett Corp. As chairman of the War Industries Board's construction committee, Builder Starrett directed the erection of all cantonments, hospitals. Army bases in the U. S. To Japan he introduced special teel frame buildings designed to resist arthquakes. An articulate champion...
Billie Dove is a svelte literary agent. She becomes attracted to a dull young man named Dudley Crome (Charles Starrett) because she likes his refreshing ingenuousness, his simple tastes. These simple tastes are what complicate their married life. Crome wants her to stay at home and have a family. She wants to work. Presently they divorce. Crome marries a girl who sees things his way. She has already had a baby when the picture ends but despite this bond, usually infrangible in the cinema, Crome has returned to his first wife, is preparing to remarry her. Cinemactress Dove wears becoming...