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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stock for a quick play. Although new Danforth fortunes are set at $5,000,000 or $7,000,000, or $10,000,000, knowing friends claim he is not the decline-causing bear of Manhattan gossip, but a shrewd trader who follows trends. Married, Bear Danforth has three children and a Bellanca airplane used chiefly for trips between his Cape Cod estate and his Brookline home, said to contain the most luxurious bedroom in Boston. While prime Danforth-pounded stocks are not known, it is suspected they might include: International Combustion Engineering Corp., down from...
...every country (excepting only Russia) matches are distributed by one of the 225 subsidiaries of Swedish Match Co. Of every four matches, three are made in its home or foreign factories. Big customer of Swedish Match has been Germany, where the company controls 70% of the match production. Last month it was rumored that there had arrived in Berlin the man who is behind the great Swedish Trust, Ivar Kreuger, mainspring of Kreuger & Toll Co. which holds the majority interest in Swedish Match. As usual with Kreuger visits, his object was not known, his movements veiled in mystery. Germans wondered...
Herr Kreuger is a rather slight man with a large, somewhat bald head, a high forehead and prominent cheekbones. He is a great admirer of Cecil Rhodes and Dr. Jameson. He would rather be called engineer than chief or president. He has a motor boat, three yachts, six or seven homes, but has no particular hobbies, seldom accepts invitations to dinner, and even in Stockholm has become rather a legendary figure. Over the door of his office is a carved torch. In addition to his office, he has also a silent room, to which only he and the janitor have...
Birthday. John Dewey, most famed U. S. pedagog-philosopher; in Manhattan. Age: 70. For three days he listened to fellow pedagog-philosophers gathered by a national committee around Columbia University, speak on "John Dewey's influence in the Schools," "John Dewey's Influence on Education in Foreign Lands," "The Philosophy of John Dewey," "John Dewey in Social Welfare...
...Authorized statements from official sources" in the U. S. Government; prepared without bias, printed without sensation, unaccompanied by comment, illustration, elucidation or humor, are what the United States Daily has been furnishing in Washington for three and one-half years. A complete daily tabulation of the functioning of the Federal machinery, it is a unique newspaper valued by business and lawyermen, teachers, editors, government officials the country over...