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Fifteen major bond issues have been floated abroad since 1885 by the Mexican government and the Mexican National Railways (today an insolvent concern). Last week the grand total of these Mexican debts stood at $514,302,000 principal, plus $369,888,000 in accrued unpaid interest. Therefore in the cool Manhattan office of J. P. Morgan & Co. an agreement was signed by Senor Luis Montes De Oca, Mexican Finance Minister. By its terms Mexico's principal creditors (the International Committee of Bankers on Mexico, chairmanned by Thomas William Lamont) agree to accept a "very large" but unspecified...
Reporter Harry Thompson Brundidge of the St. Louis Star entered a grand jury room in Chicago last week, remained three hours to elaborate on his printed stories that many Chicago newsmen, like the murdered "Jake" Lingle of the Tribune, are actually, racketeers (TIME. June 23. et seq.). As he emerged Reporter Brundidge was met by a hostile group of Chicago newshawks. What had been his testimony? Reporter Brundidge was sorry, he could not answer. Then Reporter Hilding Johnson of the Herald & Examiner asked...
Also summoned before the grand jury were ten Chicago newsmen. Among them was Jimmy Murphy, 28 years a police reporter on the Journal, last fortnight discharged from the Times when he admitted having been business partner in a north-side speakeasy three years ago. Also present: Roscoe ("Duffy") Cornell, former city editor, now circulation manager of the Herald & Examiner, whose assistants are accused of conducting a questionable lottery on the Kentucky Derby...
Shortly thereafter, the Herald & Examiner said in an editorial: "It is understood that Robert M. Lee, City editor of the Tribune, had been for about nine years a close friend of 'Jake' Lingle. The grand jury might call Mr. Lee and inquire what he knows ... of the activities of Lingle before he was murdered...
...young unmarried landscape architects bent over drawing boards for four weeks, competing for this year's fellowship in landscape architecture at the American Academy in Rome. Last week they were lodged in Manhattan's Grand Central art galleries. A large wash drawing of a colonial country estate and a sheaf of complementary sketches won the prize for Richard Coolidge Murdock, Cornell graduate, son of Architect Harris Hunnewell Murdock of Manhattan. Among his perquisites will be $1,550 a year for three years, $500 travel money, an airy comfortable studio on the Janiculum in Rome, entree into Roman diplomatic society...