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...grand scale, Bacardi rum is more widely known in the U. S. today than ever it was before Prohibition. No one was more surprised than President Jacobi of Schenley Products Co. when someone called up one day last month to say that Henri Schueg, shrewd, white-thatched head of Compania...
...Corp.'s big Spanish subsidiary might lose its franchise was lifted last week. When Left-wing deputies demanded that the bill abrogating the contract be brought up for debate, Premier Azana requested that the Cortes refrain from discussion, declaring: "The Government takes full responsibility for the negotiations [with Compania Telefonica National de Espana for a new contract] . . . will stand or fall on the question." The Cortes voted 181 to 11 to let the Government stand, but not until after two excited deputies had started to pummel each other...
Heavy, heavy over the head of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. hangs the threat that Spain's Cortes (parliament) will declare the franchise for its big subsidiary. Compania Telefonica Nacional de Espana, null & void. The threat has hung over I. T. & T.'s head for eleven months, and last week Left-wing Deputies in the Cortes were shouting loudly for a vote on the bill, a hefty item in the pre-Revolution program against His Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII. The shouting Deputies claim the franchise was illegal, that it was obtained only after a thumping bribe was slipped...
Charles Henry Sivift, 59, was elected president of Compania Swift Internacional at a directors' meeting in Buenos Aires, succeeding his brother, the late Edward Foster Swift, whom he also succeeded as chairman of Swift & Co, Swift Internacional raises livestock in South America. New Zealand, Australia. It sells mostly in Europe; by a trade agreement formed in 1927 Swift Internacional, Armour, and English-owned Union Cold Storage share 69% of the South American-European beef trade. Son of Founder Gustavus Franklin Swift, President Swift went to no college, began work in the Stock Yards at an early age. He became...
...Madden, known on race tracks as "Handsome Coley," who recently told friends he "preferred Wall Street to the horses." B. C. Neidecker, War aviator, managing director of the Travelers Bank of Paris (also listed). Raymond Patenotre, member of the French Chamber of Deputies. Zalmon Gilbert Simmons (beds). Greva Compania, headed by William Greve, president of New York Investors, Inc., vice chairman of Prudence...