Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bearer of the invitation was Sir Esme Howard, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps at Washington, Ambassador of His Britannic Majesty. Present and also invited by the Powers was Owen D. Young, chairman of the General Electric Co., chairman of the Radio Corp. of America, chief collaborator with General Dawes on the original Plan. Officially Mr. Young and Mr. Morgan will rank as equals on the new Committee; but Mr. Young is expected to sit as chairman...
Banks. During 1928 the Bank of United States (Manhattan) accumulated by merger the following: Central Mercantile Bank & Trust Co. (six branches), Cosmopolitan Bank (four units), City Financial Corp. Last week it bought stock control of the Colonial Bank (16 branches), bringing its total resources to $260,000,000, its chain to 36 banking units...
Last week. Pan-American Airways, now operating company for Aviation Corp. of the Americas, started to carry passengers and mail from Miami to Nassau among the Bahamas, and from Miami to Havana. Camaguey and Santiago in Cuba, Port-au-Prince in Haiti, Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, and San Juan in Porto Rico...
...chosen a director. Accordingly, at the end of the week, President & Chairman Charles B. Seger resigned. To his office was elected F. B. Davis Jr., President of du Pont Viscoloid Co. The change meant that the du Fonts had full control; it presaged a close alliance between General Motors Corp. (25% du Pont) and U. S. Rubber, onetime "biggest" manufacturer of rubber products...
Soft Drinks. Three beverage-bottling companies last week agreed to unite: Carl H. Schultz Corp. (70-year-old table & mineral water company), Schoneberger & Noble Inc. (Dr. Brown's Celery Tonic), Brownie Corp. (new "Brownie" chocolate drink). President E. C. McCullough of the holding company, American Beverage Corp., announced that these three are only the beginning of a nationwide soft-drink chain...