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...under his chairmanship as a Committee of Conciliation. In a few hours they had established relations with Secretary Thomas Ashurst of the Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers' Association, with Secretary George Pogson of the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners. Here at last was a channel through which both sides could dicker without losing face...
Frank Ernest Gannett, chain-paper publisher of Rochester, N. Y., went quietly to Brooklyn last week. There he completed a dicker terminating negotiations which have dragged on two years and more, realizing an ambition of many years. He took control of the distinguished old Daily Eagle, which during all the 87 years of its existence had been under the continuous ownership of a family group. _ Two upstate publishers thus became rivals in the huge, various New York City newspaper field. For only last August, another chain-paper man, Paul Block, bought the Brooklyn Standard-Union. Block began his newspaper career...
...would be the greatest real estate dicker in the history of New York, since Peter Minuit in 1626 bought Manhattan Island...
...deliberating. They were realtors, and they talked of leases and rents, and how many stories an office building must rise in order to yield income proportionate to the value of a property in terms of Fifth Avenue frontage. In the end, they nodded in agreement on a real estate dicker which will wipe out the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a famed Manhattan landmark, a tradition of princesses and kings, Peacock Alley, memories of the Bradley-Martin ball...
Shrewd Ivar Kreuger has known how to dicker with sensitive governments, greedy governments, when the Swedish Match Trust wanted another monopoly (TIME, Oct. 1). A fat check here, a guarantee there, and competition has pleasantly evaporated. Thus it was that, last week, the match king of Sweden could look with satisfaction at every major match-consuming country of the world, except...