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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...founded at Washington, D. C. in 1867 by General Oliver Otis Howard who commanded the Union Army in that neighborhood. The medical school, established soon thereafter, includes white and colored students. For almost 50 years the school had little money. Teachers received little pay. Then the Rockefeller General Education Board gave it $250,000, individual whites about $80,000 and Negroes a little more than $170,000. President of Howard is Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, Negro...
Shenandoah Corp. was broadly empowered to "buy, sell, trade in and hold stocks and securities of any kind . . . participate in syndicates and underwritings . . . exercise such other of its charter powers as its Board of Directors may from time to time determine." The Board thus broadly trusted contained great names, One was Goldman Sachs & Co., potent financiers. Another was Harrison Williams, potent utility man. After the House of Morgan has taken its bow as First in Finance, it is questionable whether any other banking house, from the standpoint of present and recent activity, much outranks Goldman Sachs. As for Mr. Williams...
...Morgan Man (export division), then spent a year as president of Schloss Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. on the Executive Committee of which he still serves. He has written on many an industrial topic, has been recently engaged with William T. Foster on a study of the Reserve Board v. Wall Street situation. Whenever Mr. Catchings can catch some leisure from his business cares, he travels to his Lake Placid log cabin...
...represents last week's loans-to-brokers. It was a new high record in brokers' loans with a $95,000,000 gain for the week. It was also considerably higher than the figures prevailing during the Reserve Board v. Stock Market excitement last February and March...
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (Famed Pittsburgh family steel company, closel)' held by the Jones and Laughlin families. Founded in 1852. G. M. Laughlin Jr. is Board Chairman and W. L. Jones Jr. and B. F. Jones III are Executive Committee members. Capacity of 2,400,000 gross tons pig iron and 3,000,000 gross tons ingots. Earned $16 a share for the half.) Net income, first half...