Word: cochrane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Cochran, partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., arrived last week on the swift Mauretania. Reporters wasted no time in cornering him. Said he: "I have a statement ready. It is six words long. Take it down carefully. 'A singed cat dreads the fire.' That...
...Cochran. The fire was The Press. The singeing was an incident in August 1926, when Mr. Cochran, sailing for Europe, was reported by a ship news reporter as having said that General Motors stock would go higher, much higher. Wall Street, on reading the word of Mr. Cochran, promptly sent General Motors skyrocketing to a then-record-high...
...invitations to Senator Borah of Idaho, "Jimmy" Walker, Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, Charles Evans Hughes, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. For those seeking entertainment, the most definite offering that the Union management can now make is the Jake Schaefer billiard exhibition in January. Last season Mr. Schaefer and Welker Cochran played to a full house. Several travel talks will be given,--the management hopes to secure some authority on the comparatively newly discovered city...
...Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur and Thomas Cochran, partner'in J. P. Morgan and Co., arrived at Cedar Island Lodge as guests of President Coolidge. Secretary Wilbur talked about Nicaragua...
Their tempers were not improved by word of the I. C. C.'s decision to allow the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway to build 38 miles of new line from Cochran's Mill (Pa.) to Connellsville (Pa.), over the protest of competing lines, Pennsylvania, Nickel Plate, Baltimore and Ohio, Wheeling and Lake Erie...