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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Colonel Jacob Ruppert, 71, multimillionaire president of Ruppert Brewing Co., since 1915 owner of the world champion New York Yankees; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Jacob Ruppert went to work in his father's brewery, at 23 he was general manager, at 29 he succeeded his father (who retired) as president. One of the most eligible bachelors in New York, Teutonic, punctilious Jacob Ruppert, who had been appointed a colonel on Governor David B. Hill's staff, served four terms in Congress, bought a stable of race horses, raised blue-ribbon St. Bernard dogs, collected little monkeys, began to pick up choice parcels of Manhattan real estate...
...time he was 48, Colonel Ruppert was a very rich man. He had made millions in real estate, millions more in beer. But he was not happy. He wanted to own a ball club again. His offer for the New York Giants was refused. Someone suggested that he could buy the down-at-the-heels New York Yankees, weak sister of the American League, for $450,000. He did-in 1915, with a rich contractor, Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston, as partner. For the next five years the two optimists shopped for a player who could produce home runs, finally...
...rival "Keep the Embargo" meeting packed in 4,000, turned 2,000 away. Adroitly its sponsors presented not only Catholic churchmen as speakers but a Protestant onetime Ambassador to Spain, Irwin Laughlin, and a one time counsel of President Roosevelt (during his second term as Governor of New York State), Martin Conboy, who argued neutrality's case...
Last week trouble arrived in the form of an SEC order for a hearing February 14 to determine whether A. G. & E.'s common stock should be delisted from the New York Curb and other stock exchanges. SEC said it believed the company's registration statement to be "false and misleading" in certain particulars which had the effect of substantially overstating assets, etc. A. G. & E. promptly retorted: "It appears that the matters covered by the order relate largely to accounting theory...