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...Georges Nagelmackers died, after exemplifying all his life his motto: "Our work is only commencing." From 1903 onward Mr. Davison Dalziel had been a member of the board and an intimate of M. Nagelmackers. He, now Baron Dalziel, is thus Chairman of the Board of Wagons-Lits by a definite right of succession. His proudest boast is that the Armistice was signed in Wagons-Lits...
...series of wily maneuvers which have enabled him to get control of a huge, commanding bloc of Wagons-Lits securities. Shrewd, unctuous, Captain Cohn is not, however, the man to be satisfied with mere control. He is planning an amazing, manipulative coup. Last month he and Lord Dalziel visited Manhattan and quietly applied to list the shares of Wagons-Lits upon the New York Stock Exchange. If that listing is granted, they are reported to plan nothing less than the sale of both Wagons-Lits and "Cooks' " to U. S. investors. Their own holdings were acquired at a price...
Champagne, although far from being the favorite beverage of Wagons-Lits Chairman Davison Dalziel, Baron Dalziel (pronounced Dee-el) of Wooler, figures indispensably in the diet of Lord Dalziel's shrewdly machinating colleague in the management of Wagons-Lits, Captain Jefferson Davis. Cohn, financial adventurer who has ventured to invest heavily in Wagons-Lits stock...
...London, Wagons-Lits Chairman Baron Dalziel announced that "while actually controlling Cooks' " he will sit as vice-chairman of Cooks' board under the continued chairmanship of Frank Henry Cook, Knight of Grace...