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...depressed is the cinema industry and few are the cinema companies which can expect an eager rush of investors to purchase their securities. Keen, swart, mustachioed Mr. Griswold has influential connections and a thorough understanding of how securities are issued, how the press receives them. He, better than Winfield Sheehan, Fox vice president and general manager, and better than any Fox man accustomed to the usual cinema publicity, should be able to launch the forthcoming Fox bonds into a quiet and receptive financial...
Died. J. B. Lazear, 92, oldest West Point alumnus, appointee of Jefferson Davis, student under Superintendent Robert E. Lee and Instructor Winfield Scott, classmate of George Custer; in his Omaha home. Lazear, never graduated, had been for 39 years a bank examiner...
Born. To Mme Paul Dubonnet (Jean Nash) and Paul Dubonnet (aperitif) distiller's scion, divorced husband of Christiane Coty, daughter of Publisher & Perfumer Francois Coty; a daughter (their first, her third child); in Cannes, France. She married successively John Stanley Kirwan of Manhattan, Capt. Winfield Sifton (by whom her eldest, now 18) son of the late Sir Clifford Sifton. British Army Capt. John Victor Nash, Egyptian Prince Mohammed Sabit...
...Professor Lowe,* meteorologist and inventor, built the balloon City of New York, then the largest ever constructed (diameter, 130 ft.), for a flight across the Atlantic. The outbreak of the Civil War upset that plan. Professor Lowe went to Washington to propose to General Winfield Scott the formation of a balloon corps. The General was not impressed, finally lent his ear and his aid only at the personal prompting of President Lincoln...
...issue with Governor Reed's criticism of the Farm Board's wheat acreage reduction program, the result of the primary was interpreted as an endorsement of the Administration's farm relief policies. Senator Allen, though nominated, lost political power when Governor Reed was beaten because David Winfield Mulvane, potent Old Guard boss, National Committeeman for Kansas, successfully supported Nominee Haucke. Vice President Curtis, partial to the Mulvane-Haucke wing of the party, journeyed to Topeka to cast his primary ballot, then hurried east to enjoy the social atmosphere of Newport, R. I. Missouri. With no serious contests...