Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...customers' orders. Some of its partners' cultural adventures are as well-known as their business deals. Last week dapper Rowland Stebbins, Broadway's most successful stage "angel" for several seasons, announced he would put a stake back in Wall Street, become a special partner in deCoppet & Doremus,* his old firm. When he retired in 1929 to produce plays, Rowland Stebbins had been with the firm 23 years, twelve as a general partner. Before that he was an engineer until his cousin, the late Edward J. deCop-pet, offered him a job in his brokerage house. Love of music had made...
Pilot Hinkler's tactlessness alone would be almost enough to endear him to Editor Grey who loves nothing more than to bait the Air Ministry and infuriate the Industry, with which he occasionally enjoys keen unpopularity. Intensely patriotic (suspected of Francophobia), a firm believer in British aviation, he loathes dunderheadedness
...Died. W. Evarardus Bogardus, 36; of infantile paralysis; in Manhattan. He was vice president of Bishop First National Bank of Honolulu for eleven years, returned to the U. S. last autumn, entered the insurance firm of Wainwright & Page, Inc. In October he married Mrs. Marie Louise Blair Hamilton, ex-wife of the late J. P. Morgan's grandson, Pierpont Morgan Hamilton...
Died. Frank Henry Cook, 69, grandson of Founder Thomas Cook of Thomas Cook & Son (tourist agency) and onetime head of the firm; in Wonersh, Surrey, England...
...four-tenths shares of Grigsby-Grunow stock for each share held. At current prices of about $1 a share for .Grigsby-Grunow, Columbia's 82,524 shares will thus bring some $363,000. House Changes. Year's end is house-cleaning time in Wall Street. Partners come and go, firms merge, dissolve, start up. Most notable change of last week was Kidder, Peabody & Co.'s absorption of old Kissel, Kinnicutt & Co. Formed 66 years ago in Boston, Kidder, Peabody was long famed as a conservative New England banking house and distributor of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. shares...