Word: abbots
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last evening in Sever 11, under the suspices of the Finance club, Mr. Edwin H. Abbot of Minwaukee, delivered an address on "Stocks and Bonds in Railroad Organization and Control...
...speaker said that the railroad systems of America were fast assuming gigantic proportions and it is of the highest importance that they should be conducted on economic principles. Mr. Abbot denied the justice of universal suffrage as applied to voting of stockholders and deprecated the prevailing tactics, thoroughly gambling tactics, of foroing up the price of shares of railroads in order to buy up the votes which represent the control of the railroads. As an example of this scheming, Mr. Abbot instanced the great Oregon Trans-continental fight of last...
Harvard Finance Club. Stock and Bonds in Railroad Organization and Control. Lecture. Mr. Edwin H. Abbot. Sever...
...Edwin H. Abbot of Milwaukee, Wis., lectures tonight in Sever 11, under the auspices of the Finance club on "Railroad Organization and Control in Relation to Stocks and Bonds." Mr. Abbot has himself taken an active and prominent part in large schemes of railroad organization and his experience has led him to some conlusions as to the manner in which stocks and bonds should be handled in case of railroad bankruptcy...
...rarely enough to satisfy the bonds, this means that the stockholders of capital stock lose everything. The fortunes made not by "railroad wrecking" but by such men as Jay Gould show to what enormous abuses and injustice this procedure leads. Efforts are being made to find a remedy. Mr. Abbot's lecture on this subject will be interesting and ought to attract a large audience...