Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge appointed John W. Pole of Cleveland to be Comptroller of the Currency, vice Joseph W. Mclntosh resigned. Duties of the Comptroller of the Currency are to supervise application of the banking laws, study reports from U. S. bank examiners. All national banks must report to him periodically. He has power to close banks with shaky resources...
...Smith, Dragon of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan in 1926, was fined $1,000 last week and sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary for 15 months. He & friends had an automobile stealing racket in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Louisville...
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Motors. Motorcar makers last week heard of 3 consolidations, completed or pending: 1) Hupp Motor Car Corp. (possibly controlled by William C. Durant) and Chandler-Cleveland Motors Corp. (possibly controlled by the railroading brothers Van Sweringen), forming a $130,000,000 business; 2) Chrysler Corp. and Commercial Credit Co. (Baltimore), to provide instalment sale systems for Chrysler cars; 3) Humber, Hillman and Commer (British) motor interests, as Humbers, Ltd. Object: competition with U. S. manufacturers. Capital...
...when Manhattan light and transit interests were consolidated, he became the ally of Jay Gould, Samuel J. Tilden, P. A. B. Widener, and had as counsel, Paul Drenner Cravath and Elihu Root. He helped elect a Mayor of New York, and did more than anyone else to secure President Cleveland a second term in the White House. He fought the Seaboard Air Line Railway until he beat it and he helped launch the Southern Railway. In one of his most notable financial prodigies, the organization of the American Tobacco Co., with which he gained a two-thirds interest...