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...Clarence Dillon, Wall Street banker who flings a swift & broad flail in his financial harvestings,* struck twice against litigation, according to two complaints lodged last week in Manhattan against him. One was that he had created an asbestos trust, the other that he had not given a _go-be-tween sufficient commission in an oil deal...
...Asbestos Corporation Ltd., which Mr. Dillon has just organized, is the concern that the Federal District Attorney at Manhattan, Charles R. Tuttle, considers a combination in restraint of trade and which he wants broken up. His reasons: Three companies-Canadian Johns-Manville Co. Ltd., Quebec Asbestos Corp. Ltd. (a subsidiary of Philip Carey Mfg. Co. of Ohio) and the Keasby Mattison-control 80% of the world's supply of that fibrous-like rock called asbestos; those companies agreed to sell all their output for five years to one of Mr. Dillon's smart young men, duVal R. Goldthwaite...
...disgruntled go-between was Emmet Queen, who claims that it was he, not Beman Gates Dawes (brother of the Vice President) who brought about Mr. Dillon's recent sale of the Pure Oil Co. to the Ohio Cities Gas Co. for $23,500,000. Mr. Queen asserts that Mr. Dawes was Mr. Dillon's "dummy" in the deal, and wants $1,100,000 go-between commission for himself...
Clarence Douglas Dillon...
Clarence Douglas Dillon '31 of Far Hills...