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...list of commodity futures markets are President John Wesley Hanes, senior partner in Chas. D. Barney & Co., and First Vice President John L. Julian of Fenner & Beane. President Hanes may be a stockbroker by trade but he is a tobacco man by birth. His father helped found a big Winston-Salem tobacco company which was merged with R. J. Reynolds (Camels). After Yale (1915) and the War (Navy), "Johnny" Hanes went north to Wall Street. He is largely responsible for the fact that Chas. D. Barney & Co. today is regarded the leading authority on tobacco stocks. A big Reynolds' stockholder...
...began the fashion, the national champion ship has been largely an affair for pointers, though a setter, Feagin's Mohawk Pal, won three times (1927, 1928, 1930). This year it looked as if a setter might come through again. Louis M. Bobbitt, a chain drugstore man from Winston-Salem, N. C., one of the first amateur handlers in years to go up against the professionals in this stake, was there with a flashy little setter called Sports Peerless who won the gallery's fancy with his cautious wiggling and creeping when close to birds. He found and handled...
...architect and Scenarist Reginald Berkeley, he spent six weeks in North and South Carolina last summer collecting local color. Out of 40,000 feet of film shot on this hunt for atmosphere less than 500 got into the finished work. Tobacco markets near Millin, S. C., cigaret factories at Winston-Salem...
...Oldest Easter dawn services in the U. S. are those held in Moravian towns in Pennsylvania, and in Salem, the somnolent, pre-Camel part of Winston-Salem, N. C. Here, beginning at 2 a. m. on Easter morning, bands tour the dark streets playing old Moravian chorales. Toward dawn there is a service at the doorway of old Home Church, then a procession down to the Moravian burying ground, in which the tombstones are all the same size and laid horizontally. Thousands of visitors attend, to hear the Bishop intone "The Lord is risen." The visitors reply, "The Lord...
Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith came from a family which, in the industrial feudalism of the new South, occupied at Kannapolis, N. C. a position analogous to that of the Reynolds family at Winston-Salem. The Cannon textile mills were founded by James Cannon who started out as a clerk in a Concord, N. C. general store just after the Civil War. Old James Cannon had five sons, four of them given to jollity and excesses, one given to sober industry. He willed his textile mills to his sober youngest son. Charles A. Cannon proved the wisdom of this move...