Word: stephenson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SooLine (previously president of the First National of Minneapolis). Other railroad presidents already on the board are Ralph Budd, head of Great Northern, and Charles Donnelly, head of Northern Pacific. Besides bankers of four States (including James E. Woodward, president of Metals Bank of Butte and Sam Stephenson, president of First National of Great Falls) the board will number leading industrialists. Among those already chosen are John D. Ryan, Cornelius F. Kelly, and L. O. Evans, respectively the chairman, president and general manager of Anaconda Copper Mining Co., gigantic producer and fabricator not only of copper, but zinc, lead, silver...
...Goods. United Dry Goods Corp. was founded to unite a group of wholesale dry goods concerns, including Finch Van Slyke & McConville of St. Paul; Watts, Ritter of Huntington (W. Va.); Walton N. Moore of San Francisco; Arbuthnot, Stephenson of Pittsburgh; A. Krolik of Detroit. Assets in this merger total $25,000,000. Its purpose: to combat chain stores and others buying directly from the manufacturer by forming a chain of middlemen. Possible future additions to the merger: Ely & Walker of St. Louis; Carson, Pirie, Scott of Chicago; Hibben, Hollweg of Indianapolis; Perkins of Dallas...
...Pittsburgh Club, last week had his thumb dislocated by a fast liner. If he is long on the bench, the Chicago Club should be the next champion. Outstanding Chicagoans are Infielder Rogers Hornsby and Outfielders Hack Wilson (who recently got into a fist fight with a Cincinnati player), Riggs Stephenson, Kiki Cuyler. The Chicago Club has three first rate pitchers (Guy Bush, Charlie Root, Pat Malone) precisely two more than most of its competitors can muster...
...acquisition of Rogers Hornsby, for whom he traded five players and considerable currency to Boston. The addition of Hornsby gives Chicago a "Murderer's Row" of batters comparable to the famed Yankee quartet of Ruth, Gehrig, Lazzeri, Koenig. The Chicago "Row" contains "Kiki" Cuyler, Hornsby, "Hack" Wilson, Riggs Stephenson. Experts everywhere predict that the Cubs will sweep through the National League. Chicago bettors are already willing to back their team in the 1929 World Series...
...high spots of the show when she appears in some pyjamas attributed to Pizarro. Melvyn Douglas, playing opposite her, does a thoroughly capable job, and Violet Kemble Cooper, in the role of his scorned nemesis, makes the most of a less productive part. Ferdinand Gottschalk and Henry Stephenson give two excellent characterizations in auxiliary roles...