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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Steichen had been there for a half-hour studying lights and shades, posing the janitor of the building in the chair where Banker Morgan would sit. Briskly he shunted the sitter to his seat. Banker Morgan sat down, glared into the lens. Snap. One picture was taken. Said Steichen...
...this way did the conference give each leader assurance that he would be left holding no bag. Rumors of curtailment were denied. Merchant Jesse Isidor Straus of R. H. Macy & Co. said it was not true he had laid off 1,200 employes but that he had discharged 28, taken on 200. Other executives spoke along the same lines. Alexander Legge. Chairman of the Federal Farm Board, drawled, "It looks as if industry would have to begin scraping around to get employes instead of laying off anybody...
...Marx (clothing); in Chicago; of pneumonia. In 1872, with his brother Max, he began the firm of Harry Hart & Bro. in Chicago. With a brother-in-law and Marcus Marx, Hart, Abt & Marx was opened seven years later. When Levi Abt withdrew from the concern, a new partner was taken in and the present house established as Hart, Schaffner & Marx. The first year (1887) they did a $550,000 business; last year, a $35,000,000 business. Founder Hart survived his partners. Long interested in educational* and social work, he was a faithful donor to Jane Addams' famed Hull House...
...from the premises of Pach Brothers, Photographers ... a section of what is known as the real Yale fence, valued highly for its associations and use in the photographic business. ... It may have been taken as a souvenir and placed in some college fraternity and club houses...
...have long been honorably associated with things Cantabrigian. The announcement of the masters-to-be of the third and fourth Houses will also please Harvard men. Robert B. ("Frisky") Merriman '96, and Edward A. Whitney '17, although of different generations, are both members of the faculty who have long taken an advisory part in undergraduate life outside of their professional interests. Boston Herald