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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Second Assistant Postmaster General Glover announced last week that Col. Lindbergh had violated the Pan-American Airways Co.'s contract with the U. S. by transporting 170 pounds of mail stamped by the Republic of Panama to the U. S. Only U. S. mail, pending further postal arrangements in Central America, was to have been carried. Philatelists were charged with responsibility for the violation. Col. Lindbergh was not reprimanded. In Manhattan, last week, a stamped envelope carried over the North Pole in 1926 by Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd sold at auction...
...Plowboy Owen D. Young, now Chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. of America, proved unable or unwilling to duplicate the blooded, Bourbon rôle of aloofness played, last week, by the "last of the J. P. Morgans." As one who had had a leading part in drafting the original Dawes Plan, Tycoon Young began to show pique when Dr. Schacht neared the climax of his argument as to why Germany must not pay all she owes. A passing reference made by Berlin's Iron Man to the fact that Germany has met all her Dawes payments...
...Morgan actually coined Hearst Editor Brisbane's famed slogan: "Don't sell the country short." Mr. Junius Spencer Morgan had participated in the dry-goods business at Boston, Mass, before he removed to London and founded the English firm of J. S. Morgan & Co. Later, this became Morgan, Grenfell & Co., which is today the London office of Morgan...
...went down one evening last week, Prime Minister Venizelos entered the Chamber of Deputies and began a fiery speech which lasted well into the night. He moved adoption of a bill entrusting to J. & W. Seligman & Co. of Manhattan the financing of a notable series of public works in the Salonika Valley. Pointedly defying Hambros, Venizelos cried...
...Trade, a group of Chicago capitalists organized, and last week announced, Chicago Corp., a $60,000,000 midwest investment trust. The directorate of the new corporation is of the top stratum of Chicago's financial world. Packers are represented by Edward F. Swift, vice president of Swift & Co., and F. Edson White, president of Armour & Co. Merchants include George B. Everitt, president of Montgomery Ward and James Simpson, president of Marshall Field. The present Marshall Field conducts the investment house, Field, Glore & Co., which financed the issue. Industrialists on the new board include Sewell L. Avery (U. S. Gypsum...