Word: chase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return, it gave Fox $28,800,000 cash, also nine-tenths of its common stock. The common stock, however, was divided into voting and non-voting classes, and that which Fox received may not vote for Film Securities' directors. The other one-tenth went to the Chase-headed syndicate which underwrote the $30,000,000 worth of Film Securities notes and preferred stock. Thus Fox no longer controls the 660,900 shares of Loew's which amount to working control (48%) of that company. Although a Government suit against Fox's investment in Loew...
...even the stately halls of the world's largest banks are free from corporate ghosts. For almost a year one of them has lurked disturbingly in the recesses of Chase National Bank. Were it articulate this ghost might well have slid into the offices of Governor Albert Henry Wiggin and whined: "I am the ghost of William Fox's mismanagement of Fox Film Corp. I was created during the wild days of 1929 when he expanded quickly and without funds. Last year I was temporarily silenced when Fox Film fought off receivership by selling $55,000,000 notes...
...shareholders to elect six new directors. At the head of the list was Banker Wiggin, director of a myriad of mighty companies, also of less prosperous ones such as American Woolen, Armour & Co., International Agricultural Corp. Proposed to stand beside him were General Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose directorships include Chase National Bank, Illinois Central Railroad, and Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Breed of Horses; Phillip Ream Clarke, president of Central Trust Co. of Illinois; Frank Overton Watts, chairman of First National Bank in St. Louis; George Monroe Moffett, vice president of Corn Products Refining...
...compared well with $8,230,000,000 the previous year. A feature of bank reports was the return to Second Biggest of National City Bank whose resources of $1,842,885,000 bettered Guaranty Trust's $1,806,380,000. Still on top is Chase National Bank with resources...
...appears cool, extremely neat, does not look his 50 years. At Yale he was voted "most likely to succeed" by classmates who now also hail as successes Editor Ogden Mills Reid of the Herald Tribune, Dean Clarence Whittlesey Mendell of Yale college, Charles Simonton McCain, chairman board of directors Chase National Bank. Classmates remember Alcoholman Adams as "Toots...