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...week Marshall Field & Co., following the lead of many another closed corporation, decided to let a portion of its stock pass to the public. Of 2,000,000 shares authorized, 1,400,000 are to be outstanding of which 540,000 were offered at $50 last week by Field, Glore & Co. and Lee, Higginson & Co. The remainder will be exchanged for present Marshall Field & Co. shares while 200,000 of the unissued will be reserved for sale to employes at a later date...
...Founder, to the deal. Born in 1893, Field III has been a soldier, newspaper reporter, bondsalesman, but aside from being a trustee of the estate, has had no hand in the management of the store. Nine years ago he took part in the formation of Marshall Field, Glore, Ward & Co., now Field, Glore & Co., potent Chicago banking house, with an office also in New York. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he spends most of his time far from Chicago. A great love of horses made him join the cavalry during the War, and enabled him to become a director...
...reaching deal with Americans who had capital, were glad to spend it for power in Europe. The result was a new holding company, European Electric Corp., Ltd., incorporated in Canada, sponsored by a powerful group including Electric Bond & Share, General Electric, Italian Superpower, Bonbright & Co., Inc., Field, Glore & Co. In scope, European Electric will resemble Bond & Share, controlling, managing, financing and constructing utility enterprises...
Chicago Corp. (Investment trust sponsored by Field, Glore & Co.): $59,375,000 assets when formed on Feb. 9; $50,161,000 assets Dec. 31. Net profit for this period...
...ahead of the world are Homer Guck (1904, now publisher of the Chicago Herald & Examiner), William Patterson MacCracken (1909, until lately Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics), Arthur Burton Rascoe (1911-13) now associate editor of Plain Talk), Lawrence H. Whiting (1913, now president of Indiana Limestone Co.), Charles Glore (1910, now manager of Field, Glore & Co., investments). And in the class of 1907 Barber Bratfish well knew the stripling figure of Harold Higgins Swift, now vice president of Swift & Co. (packers) and still a familiar figure at the university, of whose board of trustees he is president...