Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arbitral Justices retired to deliberate, last week, there was suspense even in Manhattan. For Chairman of the Board Charles H. Sabin of the Guaranty Trust Co. is well known to have advanced some of his privy cash to "Papa Friedrich," years ago, on the sporting security of the Archduke's claim to be non-regnant. The late Frank A. Munsey also took a little flier in what might be called "Papa Friedrich Preferred...
Elected. Arthur Irving Philp, to be board chairman of Durant Motors, Inc., following a general Durant re-organization upon withdrawal of William Crapo Durant from active direction of the company...
Died. William Breining Ward, 44, of New Rochelle, N. Y., board chairman of Ward Baking Corp.; of heart disease; in his office in The Bronx...
Toward Wall Street last week the Federal Reserve Board shook a threatening finger, spoke a warning word. With loans to brokers standing at $5,669,000,000, the Board felt that too much money was being absorbed by the stockmarket, that other interests were being forced to pay too much for money they borrow, that indus-try as a whole was suffering from diversion of funds to brokers and speculators. It therefore expressed the opinion that a member of the Federal Reserve Banking System is "not within its reasonable claims for rediscount facilities" when it borrows Federal Reserve money...
Coincident with the Reserve Board's statement came the announcement that the Bank of England had raised its rediscount rate from 4½% to 5½%. With the New York rate at 5% the effect of this change will be to decrease the flow of gold from England...