Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When England negotiated the secret naval deal with Hitler, approved his violation of the Versailles treaty, thereby breaking the "Siresa common front" and encouraging the Nazis' defiance, she did not consider the security or feelings of France and the small block of nations in Europe striving so hard to keep peace...
...accumulated interest now amounting to $50,000,000. Among the securities which the House of Morgan and allied banks took over when the loan fell due last May was stock-control of the holding companies through which the Van Sweringens rule virtually all their vast possessions. On the block will go about 50% of the common stock of Allegheny Corp., representing all but one of the Van Sweringen railroads, Wheeling & Lake Erie, whose stock is pledged with RFC. The man who owns that block of Alleghany stock can hire & fire the executives of Chesapeake & Ohio (3,100 mi.), Pere Marquette...
...public's interest in the auction will centre on the 2,064,000 shares of Alleghany, worth $3,000,000 at the market price. A notable procession of blasted business dreams have passed across the auction block of Adrian H. Muller & Son, including the shades of the Insull utilities and Continental Shares, once the pride of that other Clevelander, Cyrus Stephen Eaton. But never before has such a private empire been sold substantially intact...
Last week the name of Cleveland-Cliffs popped up not in connection with a merger report but in a deal in which the principals were certainly not unaware of its merger possibilities. Very quietly a group of Eastern bankers and investment trusts bought, a large block of stock in Cliffs Corp., the holding company superimposed on the iron company. The sellers were supposed to have been Cleveland's rich & pious Mathers, who have dominated the company since it was founded in 1850 by a direct descendant of Puritan Richard Mather.* Only one of the six buyers was identified: Adams...
...moved slowly through the doorway, flanked by two immobile guards, down a narrow passage to an underground room, through heavy air that muffled footfalls, discouraged talk. In that uneasy silence the body, clad in the uniform of a Red Commander with a shroud over the legs, lay on a block of black granite, beneath a tent-shaped enclosure of glass. The bald, Slavic head with scrubby, rufous beard and mustache rested on a silk pillow. From the ridge of the glass enclosure shielded lights glowed on the waxy features of the man who proclaimed the World Revolution of the World...