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Importers and manufacturers alike are among the 265 members of the new exchange. They paid between $2,500 and $6,000 each for the privilege of sitting at the "ring" and trading in silk futures Chief among them, youngest of Manhattan exchange presidents, is 37-year-old Paolino Gerli, scion of a long line of silk importers. His early training took him to Japan, where indifferent silkworms spin out 75% of the world's supply. Now he is vice president of E. Gerli & Co., largest of U. S importers, doing an annual business...
...January Joe Sleet wrote to Nellie Wallace: "Dear I am so proud and happy to know that you are a Baptist too. What do you know, I am one of the youngest deacons in our Church? I don't think there is any harm for a deacon to learn to love some one and I do hope you will allow that some one to be you." Nellie Wallace replied that there was a spark of love aglow in her heart...
...taken one factor into account. Frank H. Claret is captain of the Atlantic Transport liner Minnewaska. He is as jovial and popular a skipper as is to be found on the high seas. On his account, travelers who are connoisseurs of captains choose the Minnewaska. He was the youngest of 18 children, ran away to sea at the age of 13, and during his motley career has supervised the tiller of every sort of craft. But Captain Claret's capability, his geniality and prowess as a raconteur do not constitute a complete estimate of the man. There is linked...
...Hoover abode. The end of the week saw the Nominee headed north, for "complete relaxation," on a 1,000-mile motor trip to the headwaters of the Klamath River. With him, in eleven cars, went newsgatherers, cameramen, President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stanford University and several professors; Allan Hoover (youngest son); Assistant U. S. Attorney-General William J.("Wild Bill") Donovan; Representative John John Quillin Tilson of Connecticut; George Akerson (secretary) ; also fishing rods, flies, the acceptance speech (for further reworking) and a batch of "crank" letters. The latter amuse the Nominee. One man begged a new set of false...
...aunts referred to were elder sisters of an 18th and youngest child, Alvaro Obregon, who was brought up by them when orphaned. He never forgot...