Elmer G Letterman the town’s famous insurance broker
In New York Elmer G Letterman, a legendary man about town, networks from Wall Street to Hollywood to secure unusual policies for celebrities. His clients include Baruchs, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Cantor, Harpo Marx, and Joseph Schenck, with Lloyds of London handling most policies. He touts favors and social leverage as the key to his success, even arranging a Kentucky admiral commission for a hotel owner.
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New York
Elmer G. Letterman
Wall Street
Tin Pan Alley
Hollywood
Central Park West
Manhattan
Paybody
Baruchs
Jimmy Durante
Leterman
Harpo Marx
Eddie Cantor
Ben Turpin
Gregory Taylor
Taylor
Kentucky
Louisville
Faffoon
Atlantic engineers reveal new fuel from engine research
Day after day last August engineers from thirteen auto and refining companies and a university tested engines on a tough Allegheny road. Atlantic researchers participated, running trials in laboratories and on 1200 Atlantic trucks and cars from Maine to Florida, yielding a powerful, better fuel. New Wine Frasit.
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Allegheny Mountains
Atlantic
Maine
Florida
New Deal ethics saga in Washington ends with Pecora
Gazette Washington correspondent Rodney Dutcher details Ferdinand Pecora exposing ethics in the Morgan circle on the Santa Claus list. E. G. Buckland emerges as the rare affair who refused stock gifts at favorable prices, while others pursued Morgan offered shares despite political ties. Buckland’s restrained stance is highlighted through his letter to Arthur M. Anderson.
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Washington
Ferdinand Pecora
Morgan
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge
Charles Evans Hughes
E. G
Buckland
Cutrate
Allegheny
Standard Brands
Arthur M. Anderson
Directs Hunt For Convicts in Exhibit of Investigation
A fragment from a historical investigation shows correspondence where a sender declines buying shares in power firms, citing potential conflicts with Connecticut Light & Power Co. The text discusses negotiations for power needs and warns against investments in related securities. It references the Morgan firm and the so called Santa Claus operations as bribes, noting the admission by a Wall Street operator.
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Arthur
Connecticut Light & Power Co
Morgan Firm
Wall Street
Campus Wife's Death Probed and Pro quid quo details emerge
Reported remarks reveal tensions over stock distribution by Morgan partners and intentions to reduce large obligations. Officials deny profit motives, framing actions as part of a program. The banking committee sessions show concern over perceived Morgan influence and hush hush rhetoric. Senator Carter Glass is mentioned without allegations of favoritism.
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Morgan
Banking Committee
Pecora
Committee
Carter Glass
Sore at Loss of Banking Panel Chair Role
A remark describes a legislator feeling anger after relinquishing the banking committee chair to take the appropriations post, signaling friction over leadership control within the fiscal panels.
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Banking Committee
Appropriations Committee
Heilwood People and Local Events In Town
Heilwood residents and visitors appear in town notes including Prof. R Lytle Grace Sanders a student nurse Ward Stahl and George Lindsay. A Sabbath School convention at the Presbyterian church drew a large crowd. Heilwood baseball beat Indiana 6 4 while losing to Commodore 8 0. Prof and Mrs H V Grambling visited Indiana July 14 1879 diary entry recalls Bastille fall and French revolution beginnings.
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R. 0. Lytle
Cherry Tree
Grace Sanders
Indiana Hospital
Ward Stahl
Penn State College
George Lindsay
Johnstown
C. R. Check
Ellsworth
Wriday
Presbyterian Church
Wallace Chapman
Indiana
M. McCullough
Servence
Hedlwood Baseball Club
Heilwoodwas
Heilwood
Commodore
Prof
H. V. Grambling
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Manuvice Mouvert
Paderewski
George Gershwin
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Harry Rosenthal
Jesse Lasky
Sam Katz
al Jolson
Douglas Fairbanks
Mary Pickford
Mitzi Green
Mitzi
John Barrymore
Roxy
Fennie Brice
Paul Whiteman
Joseph Schenck
United Artists
Paul Leterman
Joan Lowell
Lloyds of London
A. E. Lefcourt
Tion Leterman
Central Park
Brody
Rodney Dutcher
Gazette
Lacey M. Simpson
Kansas State Penitentiary
Wick Prather
Alene Lamson
Leland Stanford University
Lamson
Chicago
Tere
Diana
Kayser
Louis XVI
France
Bolivia
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