Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Atlee Pomerene, special oil prosecutor, practices law in Cleveland as a member of the firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey...
...will be no pool to stabilize the market, then disband, but a real investment concern, buying bonds to make a profit. While A. S. I. C. was expected to concentrate on first-class bonds, all values rebounded last week on the psychology that at last firm bottom had been found. The following cross-section of the bond-market showed last week's lows and the closing prices two days after A. S. I. C.'s formation...
...able to call him "C. C." were impressed to learn that he, upon whom has been conferred "every honor that organized advertising had to give," had set at rest the profession's uncertainty as to his future affiliation. Two years ago he bustled into Chicago, having left his firm of Klau-Van Pieterson-Dunlap-Younggreen Inc. in Milwaukee to become a partner in the firm of Dunham-Lesan. Lately Partner Harry Edmund Lesan died. Last week, it having gotten around that Mr. Younggreen would make a change, he announced: "I selected the McJunkin organization, after careful study, because...
Allan Anderson Aitken, 42, younger brother of Lord Beaverbrook (William Maxwell Aitken, 53) was elected president of Price Brothers & Co. Ltd., 115-year-old Canadian newsprint and pulp firm, succeeding Lieut.-Colonel John Herbert Price, grandson of Founder William Price. Mr. Price was made operating vice president. He resigned from, the directorate, making way for Lord Beaverbrook. These and other changes were thought to mark assumption of the firm's management if not stock-control by Lord Beaverbrook. Significant were Lord Beaverbrook's statements that no mergers or combines were in the offing, that "Price Brothers will...
...Trust. In 1927 the old Boston firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. formed Lee, Higginson Trust Co. Last week this trust company prepared to go out of business, announced it will pay all depositors in full, transfer trust accounts. Between Dec. 31, 1930 and March 31 of this year its deposits shrank from $15,000,000 to $7,600,000. Chairman is George Cabot Lee, grandson of the original John Clarke Lee of Lee & Higginson. Its president is Francis C. Gray. On its board are Frank Gilman Allen, onetime (1929-31) Governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Nelson Perkins of Boston & Maine...