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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day Saul G. Bron, Chairman of the Amtorg Trading Corp., a Bolshevik concern trading in the U. S., declared: "Sir Henri Deterding regards the approaching tenth anniversary of the inauguration of the Soviet Government in Russia as the proper time to make still another prediction that the Soviet Union is headed toward disaster. No one taking note of Deterding's propaganda can escape the conviction that this is really the most inappropriate moment to make such a prediction...
...Wayco Oil Corp., Detroit...
Since Judge Elbert H. Gary's death (TIME, Aug. 22) no one until last week had spoken as he did for the U. S. Steel Corp. He would rarely, except for politic reasons, let anyone else stand as spokeman for the corporation. Then came a meeting of the board of directors and potent finance committee, and there was melancholy necessity for a presiding officer for each. The duty, in both cases, fell to the corporation's president, practical Steelmaker James Augustine Farrell. His post-meeting statement, optimistic as most of Judge Gary's had been, was: ". . . Improvement...
Commentators, who attempted to prognosticate Judge Gary's successor, saw in last week's event President Farrell as the chief executive officer of U. S. Steel Corp. Head of the directorate and the finance committee might be Myron Charles Taylor, lawyer (like Judge Gary), banker, member of both bodies...
International Mercantile Marine stockholders last week decided to exchange vain mementoes of a frustrated plan, for new shares that seemed to promise them actual dividends. The late J. P. Morgan organized I. M. M. 25 years ago, close to the time when he organized the U. S. Steel Corp. His ideal was to create great corporations that would lead their fields. In steel he succeeded: in shipping he failed. The overdue, unpaid dividends on I. M. M. preferred stock now amount to tidy millions. The common stock, under such circumstances, has of course earned nothing...