Word: bonbrights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Corp., the huge Morgan-Bonbright utility holding company, gave the House of Morgan large influence in the power field but by no means control. Partner Whitney: "It has not always been J. P. Morgan & Co.'s policies that have been adopted by a long shot. I don't mean that there was a knock-down and drag-out fight but we often defer to the operating heads in matters of policy...
Sidney Alexander Mitchell, son of Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, who lately resigned as chairman of Electric Bond & Share Co., was advanced from executive vice president to president of Bonbright & Co. Manhattan bond house...
Wendell Louis Willkie, formerly a partner in the law firm of Weadock & Willkie, was elected president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., big Morgan-Drexel-Bonbright Utility holding company. Bernard Capen Cobb, who has held both the presidency and chairmanship for the last year, will continue as chairman, the corporation's chief executive post...
Floyd Leslie Carlisle, board chairman of Niagara Hudson Power Co, who marched down from Watertown. N. Y. to Manhattan to become board chairman of Consolidated Gas Co., a director in National City Bank and the most potent man in the Morgan-Drexel-Bonbright utility holding company. United Corp., was elected a director of United Gas Improvement Co., whose Philadelphia. Connecticut and New Jersey properties flank the Morgan system...
...President Hoover, who has vigorously defended the Hawley-Smoot Tariff on the stump, was presented last week a petition from 180 economists, most of them college professors, asking him to flex duties downward. The petition's sponsor was Columbia's James Cummings Bonbright. Its gist was that current rates increase unemployment, strangle foreign trade, produce tariff reprisals, delay world recovery -all arguments the President has repeatedly denied...