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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in the annual report of Hotchkiss & Cie Managing Director Benet had happy news for his stockholders. Due to an improvement in the arms business, profits for 1933 were $1,005,785 compared to $992,358 for 1932. Therefore he was able to declare a dividend of 65 francs per share ($4.32), compared to 60 francs ($3.98) a year...
...brigadier general with the Union Army in the Civil War, he was born at West Point 71 years ago and schooled at Washington's famed old Emerson Institute and at Yale. In 1885 he went to Paris as a bright young engineer with La Societé Hotchkiss & Cie and has lived there ever since. His gracious wife Margaret was one of the Cox sisters of old Georgetown; Larry Benet married her after he returned as an ensign from the Spanish-American War. Best known of his family are his nephews Poets William Rose and Stephen Vincent Benet. He lives...
Despite its million-dollar net profits Hotchkiss & Cie is really small fry in the armament world compared to such a French giant as Schneider-Creusot. Its distinctions are two: 1) it is independent of Schneider-Creusot which owns or controls 412 arms and allied enterprises including Czechoslovakia's Skoda. 2) Though a French firm, its founder like its present managing director was a U. S. citizen, Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss, born in Watertown, Conn. in 1826, made a fortune manufacturing guns and munitions for the North during the Civil War. He went to Europe in 1867, established a cartridge factory...
...Sarret found the Schmidt sisters elderly, invalid husbands and insured them. The husbands promptly died and Georges Sarret pocketed most of the insurance money on threat of turning the Schmidt sisters over to the police as poisoners and War spies. From then on the business prospered. Sarret, Schmidt & Cie. made its first mistake when healthy Catherine Schmidt insured herself for a million francs as Mageli Herbin, and the real Mageli Herbin promptly died of pneumonia. Insurance companies became suspicious. Detectives investigated and found a series of mysterious facts but no direct evidence of crime. Sarret. Schmidt & Cie. were...
...British Ambassador but for 14 years Secretary General of the League. Talks between II Duce and Sir John quickly crystallized around the issue of Disarmament. In Berlin the French Ambassador, bristling M. André François-Poncet who has personal connections with the French munitions firm of Schneider & Cie., had just delivered to Chancellor Hitler a stiff note, reputedly rejecting Germany's demand that she be permitted to triple her present army of 100,000 men. With France and Germany thus deadlocked, Sir John persuasively urged upon II Duce that the present is no time to take...