Word: bond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding feature of the opening address of Governor-General Henry L. Stimson to the Philippine Legislature, published last week by the U. S. War Department, was a long quotation from a survey-report of the Islands by Vice President Lyman P. Hammond of the Electric Bond & Share Co. (part of the so-called U. S. "Power Trust"). The Stimson-Hammond point: Let the Filipinos revise their land and corporation laws so as to permit the introduction of U. S. capital and management. Contrary to custom, even the brashest U. S. liberals were slow to cry "Wall Street" on this occasion...
...time opponent of "foreign" capital in the Philippines, applauded the Stimson document; said that the law changes suggested should not be difficult to effect. This was good news to such outreaching U. S. interests as the Firestones of Ohio (rubber) and doubtless Surveyor Hammond's Electric Bond & Share...
Chicago obligingly furnished a list. It pointed to the offices of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co., where sat Minnesota-born Eugene Morgan Stevens, golfer, fisherman, bond expert, and New York-born Frederick Tudor Haskell, trained in Chicago banking for 55 years. It pointed to the "biggest" Continental & Commercial National Bank with its Brothers Reynolds, Arthur of the potent Armour meatpacking interests, and, George McClelland, who politely declined in 1909 to be Taft's Secretary of the Treasury. It pointed to big but smaller banks, to the Chicago Trust Co., from whose roster of vice presidents the U. S. Chamber...
...Dallas, Tex., Vincent Kerens, bond broker, received $1,900,000 last week because he, "of his own free will and desire, has passed five consecutive years of sobriety and good behaviour." These terms had been laid down by the will of his father, diplomat, railroader, who died...
...Goddard, acting with the approval of several other minority stockholders, went to the Supreme Court of New York and obtained a temporary injunction restraining the consummation of the Chrysler-Dodge merger. The court finally ruled against Col. Goddard, withdrew the injunction, but also directed Chrysler-Dodge to file a bond guaranteeing "to pay all non-assenting preference shareholders of Dodge Brothers...