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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brooklyn-Boston. Plans for the union of Abraham & Straus, Inc., Brooklyn's "biggest" department store and Wm. Filene's Sons Co. of Boston last week came to a head. Thus was forged another link in the chain begun when Jordan Marsh Co. and C. F. Hovey Co. entered the Hahn department store combine last December, and continued when Filene's absorbed R. H. White Co. soon after...
...delegates of the Conservative Party Congress who had unanimously chosen Worm Rowlands as "Chairman," next chose as a "Vice Chairman" the world's biggest Steamship Tycoon, Baron Kylsant...
...Which was greater, Morgan I or Morgan II?" is as futile as to inquire "Which were better, the years 1880 to 1910, or the years 1910 to 1929?" In the early primeval times of Big Business the Elder Morgan was simply the biggest, most voracious brontosaurus. In the present years of Titanic Business it is the Morgan hand in a velvet glove which directs a fiscal juggernaut capable of thun dering over mere business brontosauri. Il Magnifico in all his purple pride never had to do with a loan of more than 200 million dollars; but austere, reserved, patrician...
...spending of that prodigious sum in the U. S. for War supplies was the biggest single event in the annals of U. S. Labor...
Banker Morgan. Since the House of Morgan has deep, traditional roots in England, young "Jack" served his ap prenticeship in the city of biggest banks - London. There are no less than five British banks ("The Big Five") bigger than any in the U. S.- Midland Bank, Ltd., Lloyds Bank, Ltd., Barclay's Bank, Ltd., Westminster Bank, Ltd., National Provincial Bank...