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Died. John Dillon, M. P., 76, renowned, dynamic, and strapping Irish politician; in London, after a major abdominal operation. A lifelong friend of the Right Hon. Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons," he was also the great contemporary and successor to Charles Stewart Parnell in the finally successful fight of the Irish proletariat against the abuses of Irish landlordism...
From Dusseldorf, Germany, last week came despatches that the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works), second in size only to the United States Steel Corp., had signed contracts for a $34,000,000 loan-$30,000,000 to be sold in the U. S. through Dillon, Read & Co., and $4,000,000 in England, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden. An unusual feature of the proposed bonds is that they will draw interest and in addition will get 6½% more for every 1% increase in Vereinigte Stahlwerke's common stock dividend rate. The common rate is now 6%. If it becomes...
...Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co., Manhattan, and John Sherwin, Chairman of the Union Trust Co., Cleveland, onetime managers of the company and the butt of stockholders' criticism, were elected directors...
...candidates, "after the most spirited voting in the history of the University." Some of the men whom Mr. Mathey will help direct the destiny of Princeton are Charles Scribner (books), Cyrus McCormick (reapers), Henry B. Thompson (cotton), Gordon Rentschler (National City Bank). Though he is a partner of Dillon, Read & Co., most people know Dean Mathey as a tennis player who, in 1916, was ranked No. 10 by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Last winter, he and Watson M. Washburn (Harvard man) forced Borotra and Brugnon, French invading champions, to a five-set match before accepting defeat...
...first mortgage bond issue to replace the previous refinancing mortgages and save the company $1,100,000 yearly in interest; 3) Paul W. Litchfield to continue as president. Mr. Litchfield was long Mr. Seiberling's vice president. Edward G. Wilmer, who now functions as Dillon, Read's president of Dodge Bros, (motor cars, Graham Bros, trucks), was the management committee's first successor to onetime President Seiberling...