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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dishonest. He may be leagued with his appointees to abstract and share a larger percentage of the assets than the law allows, thus cheating legitimate creditors. Politics largely controls Federal judicial appointments in the lowest courts and old political debts can be quietly discharged by appointment of a small group of the judge's friends as receivers. A judge's old law partner may likewise be overfavored with such assignments from the court. A good Federal judge scatters his receiverships; a bad one uses them for political or personal profit...
Roosevelt Field, adjoining Curtiss Field, last week, was the game of a group of New York bankers. They were forming a $1,500,000 corporation to develop Roosevelt Field for revenue. They counted chiefly on a huge new flying school and, within a few years, on trans-Atlantic transport...
Perhaps inspired by the investment trust activities of their potent fellow citizen, Arthur Cutten of the Board of Trade, a group of Chicago capitalists organized, and last week announced, Chicago Corp., a $60,000,000 midwest investment trust. The directorate of the new corporation is of the top stratum of Chicago's financial world. Packers are represented by Edward F. Swift, vice president of Swift & Co., and F. Edson White, president of Armour & Co. Merchants include George B. Everitt, president of Montgomery Ward and James Simpson, president of Marshall Field. The present Marshall Field conducts the investment house, Field...
...Advisory Council of the Reserve system (a group of private bankers & businessmen appointed by directors of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks) emphatically endorsed the Reserve Board's warning of last fortnight. The Reserve banks themselves began to tighten money by selling government securities and bankers' acceptances. Member banks beckoned for about $60,000,000 of outstanding call money...
Then there was a general shaking of hands and a few posings with Mr. Edison standing between his cronies, Motor-Man Henry Ford and Tire-Man Harvey Samuel Firestone, his hands affectionately around their shoulders. Mr. Hoover, sauntering across the street to telephone, saw a group of little girls looking sad because, they thought, they were not permitted to dance at Mr. Edison's party. Mr. Hoover opened Mr. Edison's gate and sent the children in. On Mrs. Edison's ample table was a big green-&-yellow pound cake. This the old gentleman sliced with skill...