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...Ronald Lindsay] handed Statesman Stimson a heavy brown envelope tied with blue cord. Inside, the brawny Briton explained, was another note from His Majesty's Government on War Debts...
...canary flowing. A huge hound or two yawns about the table for food or crunches a bone on the hearth. Talk is free and boisterous until the fire burns low. Then a young boy, a page or a wandering minstrel, with a lute suspended from a silver cord around his neck, comes in with a repertory of ballads and lyrics, and sings for them--Campion's latest stanzas, perhaps, or some slight verses of his own. The crude excitements of the times vanish in the music, and the dogs curl up their paws by the flames...
...Cord bought the little-known Martz Airlines, operating direct between New York and Buffalo. This adds a valuable New York channel to the Transamer-ican Airlines (Buffalo-Chicago) which he lately bought. Both systems will be offered to Avco at cost...
Reported and denied: That Cord is negotiating for purchase of Northwest Airways, a potent airmail system which flies from Chicago as far northwest as Duluth, Bismarck, N. Dak.. Winnipeg. Avco already owns 22½% of Northwest stock. A like amount is said to be owned by Transcontinental & Western Air, the remaining 55% by Minneapolis bankers...
Major Lester Draper ("Bing") Seymour is the man E. L. Cord wanted in place of La Motte Cohu last spring. At that time Cord was not strong enough to have Seymour elected. But he did succeed in having President Cohu's undated resignation placed in care of Avco Board Chairman William Averell Harriman, just in case. For several weeks matters went smoothly, and one day - the story goes - when Cord, Cohu & Harriman were riding in a taxicab, Cord asked Banker Harriman for the resignation, tore it up. When hostilities reopened, he bitterly regretted his impulse...