Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First skirmish occurred even before the "babes" bought control of Alleghany. In planning this purchase, there was originally a syndicate including General Motors Executives Donaldson Brown and John Thomas Smith, the former having large holdings of Alleghany preferred stock...
...planned to open all C. & O. financing and banking to competitive bidding such as the New Deal recommends. He maintains that Morgan's has been after his hide ever since and that this explains Guaranty's actions. He also claims that Guaranty is yielding to Messrs. Brown & Smith since General Motors also banks at Guaranty...
...explain the opposition of Messrs. Brown & Smith, he claims that they have been against him because he outsmarted them in the original syndicate to purchase Alleghany. To explain the opposition...
...show that this plan, formulated by a group preponderantly interested in the common stock of Alleghany, would benefit the common stock at the expense of other Alleghany and Chesapeake securities, notably the Series A Alleghany preferred. The owners of the 667,539 shares of this issue (among them Donaldson Brown and Mr. & Mrs. Young) were asked to surrender the right to accumulated dividends of $33 per share in exchange for a new type of preferred and a common stock warrant...
...paradox, however, that Duveneck's paintings seem more native to the "brown decades" in the U.S. than the paintings of some fo his stay-at-home contemporaries. he loved the brown pigment, bitumen, and it not only dulled his canvases but cracked extensively after a few years. His magnificently drawn and sometimes vivid portraits have the air of life in a darkened parlor, not the sunny tavern-and-haystack life which Duveneck and his pupils actually led. Artist Duveneck entered parlor society briefly in 1886 through his marriage to Elizabeth Boott, a refined Bostonian traveler straight out of Henry...