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...Cord Corp. holdings. About a quarter of them went to his broad-shouldered, boom-voiced No. 1 man, Lucius Bass Manning, already a large stockholder. The rest went to a syndicate headed by British Bankers J. Henry Schroder & Co., and to young, up-&-coming Public Utilitarian Victor Emanuel's investment house, Emanuel & Co. (in which he is now only a "limited partner...
...recent years U. S. E. P. sold out its holdings and the right to 75% of Standard's underwriting to an assorted banking group (which still includes Syndicateer Emanuel). But Byllesby still kept control, still had a pretty thing in being able to parcel out 25% of the underwriting to itself...
...organized Standard Gas & Electric Co., Byllesby has kept control of Standard, a utility empire with 105 subsidiaries selling gas, electric and traction service to 6,200,000 customers from Pittsburgh to San Diego. Byllesby's control of Standard was challenged in 1929 when an ambitious young financier, Victor Emanuel of Manhattan, began buying into the company. In that fight for control Standard stock went from $60 to $245 a share and Emanuel's syndicate (which later became United States Electric Power Corp.) threatened Byllesby's position enough to force a compromise. Under this deal Byllesby kept control...
...bosomy personality and earth-mother voice. But she could not have done it all by herself. Supporting her was as fine a team of husky, seasoned Wagnerian troupers as could be found in any opera house the world over. Some of them (Elisabeth Rethberg, Lotte Lehmann, Friedrich Schorr, Emanuel List) were veterans of leading German and Austrian opera houses. Some (Lawrence Tibbett, Julius Huehn) were U. S. singers. Many (Kerstin Thorborg, Karin Branzell, Gertrud Wettergren) were, like Tenor Melchior, Scandinavians. Sturdiest of all these sturdy troupers has been gargantuan, jovial Tenor Melchior, for 14 years the Met's leading...
...Alfred Emanuel Smith, one of the judges, suddenly waved a borrowed derby, sawed his way through The Bowery, joined in an explosive rendition of Sweet Adeline...