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...Brooklyn Times was acquired by the late Carson C. Peck, vice president and treasurer of F. W. Woolworth Co. Mr. Peck died in 1915 and his son, Fremont Carson Peck, took over in 1922. Ten years later, young Publisher Peck bought the Standard Union from Chain-Publisher Paul Block. Same year Chain-Publisher Gannett relinquished control of the Eagle to a corporation headed by Millard Preston Goodfellow, an old Brooklyn...
While J. P. Morgan & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. skimmed the cream of railroad financing, Goldman Sachs concentrated on industrials, which to a large extent meant selling stock, not bonds. Its clients include Woolworth, Goodrich, General Foods, Continental Can, The Lambert Co., Pillsbury Flour, United Biscuit, Phoenix Hosiery, Endicott Johnson, National Dairy Products...
...Father Summers' Woolworth Building laboratory a newshawk grasped an electrode in each hand as if he were experimenting with a toy shock machine. The electrodes were attached to an apparatus resembling a radio set, inside which were two balanced electrical circuits, with a two stage amplifier on the input side hooked up to a recording milliammeter. Any electrical agitation the newshawk betrayed under emotional stress would jiggle the milliammeter, make a needle correspondingly scratch a chart...
Before embarking on his yachting trip, England's Edward VIII had stopped in Salzburg, snapshot the land marks, heard no music. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was there. So were Steelman Myron Taylor, Music Patron Harry Harkness Flagler, Mrs. Woolworth Donahue, Secretary of Labor Frances Perhins, Singers Ganna Walska and Feodor Chaliapin. Long before the season opened, 11,316 U. S. visitors had made hotel reservations, bought $200,000 worth of concert and opera tickets. Last week with the Salzburg season half over, hawkers were doing a thriving business in cushions for the hard Festspielhaus seats, trade...
After grace and handshakings President Gannon entered on his duties. With 7,300 students, Fordham has outgrown its grassy 75-acre campus in The Bronx, spilled over into four floors of Manhattan's Woolworth Building. Promptly the new president announced that sprawling Fordham had finished its era of expansion, would concentrate on extracurricular activities to enrich campus life, bring students and faculty closer together. Said he: "Having a big registration is nothing to boast about. We won't add a single student to the rolls during the next six years...