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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sweringen interests were the first to start operations. By an ingenious use of intermeshed holding companies . . . and the funds of the throng who were eager in the days of maniac prosperity to invest in holding companies, they put to-together [the C. & O.] system. . . . Twice our approval was sought and twice it was refused...
...Florenz Ziegfeld, 63, master showman. Stricken with bronchial pneumonia, he had gone west to recover, planning to stage his Follies in Los Angeles during the Olympic Games. In Hollywood he had a relapse. After .his physicians had thought him out of danger his heart gave way, he gasped twice, died before his wife and daughter could get to him from a nearby cinema studio. His mother, dying in Chicago, was not told of his death...
...while I travel in air planes." During most of the night before his death, Salesman Bat'a worked over the terms of a shoe contract he hoped to close in Switzerland. Rising at 5 a. m. he fumed at the fog & mist which made a take-off risky. Twice the pilot refused his mas ter's order to start. Finally at 6:30 a. m. Bat'a said, "We must start...
...Ashes" - symbol of world's championship - from England in 1930. Captain was Victor Y. Richardson, a first-class bat and Australia's greatest fielder. The team had a fine wicket-keep in Harry Carter, 54, oldest man on the team. Bowler Fleetwood-Smith dismissed the South Africans twice this season in Australia and will be a valuable googlie* bowler for the test matches next year...
...other important U. S. magazine-it has been edited and wholly owned for 42 years by its founder. Albert Shaw, 75, has written the editorials in every issue of his magazine with three exceptions: once when he was a guest of the British Government during the War; twice when he was ill. He still commutes occasionally between his Manhattan office and his home at Hastings-on-Hudson...