Word: wrigley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bankers and creditors of the company. Last week Mr. Hertz said. "I was only a surgeon." referring to the $39.000.000 he lopped off the company's expenses, including $6.000,000 in salary reductions. Associated with Mr. Hertz in his Paramount venture were the late William Wrigley Jr. and Albert Davis Lasher. Last week Mr. Hertz said he would spend the winter in Miami, then return to Chicago and the racing stables which produced Reigh Count and Anita Peabody. Austrian-born Mr. Hertz sold his school books when he was 11 and became a copy boy, then...
Myrt & Marge Wrigley's Chewing...
...Amherst township near Buffalo, Police Chief Evans saw William J. Klute, whom he had long wanted on charges of robbery, in a newsreel tuning up one of the late William Wrigley's motorboats. He wired Manhattan police to arrest Tuner Klute, went...
Until the spring of 1930 Paramount-Publix was considered a model cinema company, issuing stock to pay for expansions. Then it was revealed that it had agreed to buy its stock back should it drop. The late William Wrigley Jr. (gum), Albert Davis Lasker (advertising) and John Daniel Hertz (taxicabs), all Chicagoans, began buying into Paramount. Their man was Sam Katz, of Chicago's Balaban & Katz chain of cinema theatres. At 13 he had played the piano in Carl Laemmle's first 5? cinema theatre on Chicago's west side. At 16 he owned a theatre with...
...manage the New York Yankees, Hornsby took his place. The Cubs finished third last year. Last week they were in second place when there occurred the customary culmination of a Hornsby managerial regime. President William Veeck of the Chicago Cubs, entrusted with running the team by Philip K. Wrigley who last winter inherited it from his father, announced that he had discharged Hornsby for "the best interests of the club...