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...affair and its supposed or transient value in the security markets." Andrew Carnegie, whose name was to become almost synonymous with libraries, once asked his friend, Publisher Frank Doubleday, how much he had made last month. When Doubleday replied that he never knew how he stood until the year's end, Carnegie said firmly, "I'd get out of it!" Greatest of U. S. industrialists, thinks Josephson, was John D. Rockefeller, who believes "the power to make money is a gift of God." As a young man he used to talk to himself at night about his schemes...
Ewing Virgil Neal was busily doing transient business in a magnificent Florentine suite on the Sherry-Netherland's 14th floor. His rise to wealth began, like that of Owen D. Young and many another U. S. tycoon, on a farm 64 years ago at Sedalia, Mo. He still talks with a Midwestern inflection-bland, drawling, soothing. Sedalia he left when he was 24. going to Philadelphia. Soon he entered the publishing business, wrote and published Modern Illustrated Banking and Modern Illustrated Bookkeeping (which still pay him royalties through American Book Co.). He also operated as publisher in Rochester...
Simple goiter, which is the commonplace type, may be transient. It is closely tied up with lack of iodine in the system. Dr. David Marine proved this by feeding Akron school children iodine twice a year from 1916 to 1919 and practically eliminating goiter from that bedeviled community. Most specialists work on the assumption that, for deficiency of iodine, the starved thyroid must work extra hard and grow bigger. On the other hand. Colonel Robert McCarrison from evidence he gathered in the Punjab is certain that germs in drinking water indirectly cause goiter. Iodine in drink or food, he believes...
When he walked into "a place that had a big front with a sign 'Money to Loan' and bought a gun for $8," Joe Zangara, 33, native of Calabria, Italy, onetime bricklayer in New Jersey and last week a blurry-minded transient in Miami, thought to himself: "My stomach, it hurts. I hate all Presidents. I kill them." He had pondered the possibility of killing President Hoover until he read, tore out and stuffed in his pocket a newspaper clipping that said President-elect Roosevelt would visit Miami in two days. With the .32-calibre revolver, which...
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