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Married. Cassius M. Clay, counsel for RFC's rail division; and Miriam Blossom Berle, 37, teacher, sister of New York City Chamberlain and onetime Brain Truster Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (TIME, March 12, 1934); in Boscawen...
Last week all utilitarians breathed easier when Jesse Jones and his directors stepped out of Public Utilities Securities and Floyd Odium of Atlas Corp. stepped in. Alert Investment Truster Odium had bought Utilities Power & Light debentures at bargain prices, watched them double in value. Since no holder of utility securities wants to have the Government as a partner, Mr. Odium was glad to ease RFC out last week by trading some of his Utilities Power & Light debentures for the securities held by Jesse Jones, thus giving Atlas Corp. working control of the system. Mr. Jones was also pleased because Utilities...
...Moley was presented with a bust of himself by the management for having operated Manhattan's Hotel St. Regis for a year at a profit. Asked if the cocktail lounge were responsible for having turned the St. Regis' ledgers from red to black, the one-time Brain Truster replied: "Lincoln once sold liquor in his general store, but I think my establishment is much classier." With a $5,000,000 mortgage on the property, Mr. Moley's good friend Vincent Astor year ago threw the St. Regis into receivership (TIME, June 18, 1934), last week bought...
...going to conduct a woman's lobby in Washington, at least for the present. But it was going after membership. Proof of this fact was the Organizing Committee whose most prominent member is Mrs. Hortense Odium, president of Manhattan's Bonwit, Teller & Co. (clothes), wife of Investment Truster Floyd B. Odium of Atlas Corp. Legal counsellor is Mrs. Jean Nelson Penfield, New York attorney and onetime suffragette. National Director is Radio Lecturer Cathrine Curtis who claims she first decided to educate women investors when she overheard a dowager exclaim at a party: "Commodities are like utilities, I mean...
...council table, but retained his customary seat beside Editor Rollo Ogden. There, every noon, publisher, editors and managers meet for the day's mulling of policy. Afterward the biggest wigs adjourn to the dining room upstairs, usually with a guest who may be a Cabinet officer, Brain Truster, diplomat. In the centre of the dining room ceiling is the design of a rose which Publisher Ochs liked to point out to assure his guest that whatever he said at table was strictly sub rosa...