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...Bridge admitted on the stand last week that he had received since that time more than $50,000 from Miss Frick, but maintained that this money was due him for a block of Cerro de Pasco copper stock held in his name by the elder Frick. Never once did Defendant Frick appear in court. Newshawks were not surprised, for no rich woman has ever fought publicity so long or so successfully. Blonde, thin, freckled and 44, Helen Clay Frick inherited her father's executive ability...
...people of Peru, weary of the Leguias, rose up under a red-eyed little wildcat of a man named Lieut.-Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro and overthrew the government. The Leguias were thrown into jail, charged with a list of peculations long as their pedigree, a list that reached all the way to Washington where it was testified before a Senate committee that the Manhattan firm of J. & W. Seligman & Co. had paid Juan Leguia a "fee" of $415,000 for the privilege of lending $100,000,000 to Peru. All those bonds are now in default...
Last week, after a hot summer had thinned the deep snows, two employes of a mountain resort hotel set out on mule-back. High up on volcanic Cerro del Plomo (Hill of Lead) they found the wreckage sticking out of shallow drifts. Some of the nine scattered bodies were decapitated; all were well preserved in their shrouds of snow...
...week the price of silver on the Manhattan Commodities Exchange reached 40⅞?, the highest in three years. Of last year's world production of 160,000,000 oz., 102,000,000 oz. were mined by six U. S. companies (American Smelting & Refining, American Metal, U. S. Smelting, Cerro de Fasco, Anaconda, Phelps Dodge) who dig silver as a by-product of copper mining. Most of the U. S. output is usually exported to China and India. Normally stocks of silver in Manhattan run from...
Neglected year after year, lackeys proudly dusted it off and filled it to the brim. Rapidly losing her appetite for war after the assassination of pugnacious President Luis M. Sanchez Cerro. Peru had agreed to accept the League formula for the settlement of her undeclared war with Colombia over the seizure of Leticia last September. The settlement...