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...Zurich Bourse, leading stock market of Switzerland, had its most active year since World War II's end, with average prices up 24% in 1954 and almost every Swiss stock climbing to new alltime highs. Nestlé Alimentana Co. (food and chocolate) was up 20% from 1953; Sulzer Machine Works up 35%; Switzerland's Ciba chemical company, helped by the new drug "Serpasil," used to combat nervous disorders and high blood pressure, jumped from $650 a share...
Died. William ("Sourdough Bill") Sulzer, 78, only New York Governor ever to be impeached and removed from office; in Manhattan. Son of an 1848 revolutionary who fled from Germany, he was a grocer boy on Manhattan's East Side, studied law, entered politics before he was of voting age. With Tammany support, he served 23 years in the State Legislature and in Congress, was elected Governor in 1912. Once in office, he started bucking Tammany, and before a year was out Tammany got him impeached. He was removed from office on charges of perjury and falsifying his campaign expenses...
...Columbia Law School, where one of his classmates was a heavyset, luxury-loving youth named Martin Thomas Manton. By 1910 he was the junior partner in the firm of Stanchfield & Levy. Stanchfield was one of the powerful Democrats who labored mightily to impeach Governor William Sulzer back in 1913. Louis Levy was then a well-groomed, sharp young lawyer. In this same year he was closely questioned by a New York County Grand Jury because of his part in settling a bankruptcy...
...delivery boy, a printer's devil, got a night post-office job while he went to school by day, studied at the University of Washington, newshawked in Alaska's mining camps. After the Oscar II interlude he went to Washington, became secretary to Charles A. Sulzer, Alaska's delegate in Congress. During the War he served in the finance division of the Army, later married a blonde girl named Gudrun Andersen, daughter of a Yukon prospector. They moved to Breckenridge, Tex., the heart of a contemporary oil boom. The night they arrived there was a little shooting...
...time went the favorite prints of 500 Kodak employes in 21 countries. A distinguished jury walked solemnly down long galleries of exhibits, conferred, then awarded the Eastman Gold Medal to Ralph J. Fallert of Chicago for a misty study of coal elevators and chimneys entitled "Towers of Industry." The Sulzer cup for the best portrait went to another Chicagoan, John W. Zarley for a picture of a smiling gentleman in a derby sucking a pipe...