Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example: In November of 1916 the Federal Reserve Board warned American investors against taking the unsecured paper obligations of foreign governments. Virtually the only governments whose paper of that kind was involved were England and France, whose American agent, in their pay, was J. P. Morgan & Co. ... It was Morgan & Co. who suggested the way to destroy it [the warning] was for England to threaten to cease purchasing American goods...
Born. To John Coolidge, 33, traveling passenger agent for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, only living son of the late Calvin Coolidge and Florence Trumbull Coolidge, 34, daughter of Connecticut's onetime Governor John H. Trumbull: a daughter; in New Haven. Name: Lydia. Weight: 8 Ib. 6 oz. Their other child, Cynthia...
...with what remained of his old Anderson Galleries staff. Mr. Kennerley did a good job of selling the Bishop books. But last year Widow Bishop and Friend Nixon, summering together in Paris, up and sold the Galleries for a mere $175,000 to Milton B. Logan, onetime real-estate agent, and Insurance Broker John T. Geery...
...House of Morgan was not merely an Allied fiscal agent. Its partners, notably J. P. Morgan himself, the late Henry P. Davison and Thomas W. Lamont believed, long before the public did, that a defeat for the Allies would have been defeat for the U. S. (Said Partner Davison later: "Some of us in America realized that this was our war from the start") and bent their energies to help. When Allied purchasing agents in the U. S. began fruitlessly bidding against one another, the Morgans became central purchasing agent to the Allies, and Morgan Partner Edward R. Stettinius (whose...
...French loan of October 1915 a group of American bankers headed by the House of Morgan made $9,000,000 on the spread between the purchase price (96) and the selling price (98). Of this sum the Morgan firm received $66,000. From its 1% commission as purchasing agent for England and France Morgan & Co. got $30,000,000. All that ended when the U. S. entered the War, when Davison became chairman of the Red Cross War Council, and Stettinius became second assistant Secretary of War, when the U. S. Treasury took over the job of Allied banker...