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...seared the fellow's lips and fingers, scorched his mustache. Such an unseemly performance in public caused him to seek medical attention and eventually to reach the hands of Dr. Charles Frederick Terrence East, one of the most ambitious as well as one of the most inquisitive of famed Harley Street's specialists...
...first time last week the Federal Trade Commission invoked the Securities Act against a company which had already sold a bond issue. The company was Laclede Gas Light Co. (St. Louis), an operating subsidiary of Promoter Harley L. Clarke's Utilities Power & Light. In registering a $3,000,000 bond issue with the Trade Commission, Laclede directors had signed a sworn statement that no suits were pending against the company which would affect the new bonds' value. After the issue had been distributed, the Trade Commission stumbled on the fact that there were rate cases pending against Laclede...
...change the records, I was rather ashamed of being a citizen of this nation." But Mr. Fox no longer thinks that Mr. Mayer changed the record. "When he said that," observed Mr. Fox. "he was full of ego." Mr. Fox now believes that the record was changed by Harley Lyman Clarke, the man to whom Mr. Fox sold his companies in the spring of 1930 and who is Mr. Fox's special and most bitter hate...
Today, Mr. Fox, Mr. Wiggin and Mr. Hoover have the common bond of being ex-presidents and Mr. Dodge is an ex-vice president. Harley Clarke's General Theatres Equipment company is in a receivership and so is Fox Theatres. Loew's, Inc. (and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), again independent, remain solvent and prosperous, having made a profit of $4,034,000 for the year ending Aug. 31, 1933. But the disputed 660,000 shares of Loew's. Inc. (the majority holdings bought by Mr. Fox) have been segregated by the U. S. Government. They may be sold...
Wiggin & Clarke. The Senators had even more trouble following their inquisitor's next revelation, for he led them through the tropical financing of General Theatres Equipment, Inc. Under the swift hand of Harley Lyman Clarke, who had previously garnered a fortune in utility promotion, G. T. E. swelled from a small concern with a promising film projector into an overripe holding company controlling among other things Fox Film Corp. Its decline & fall pulled down the old stock exchange houses of Pynchon & Co. and West & Co. and cost Chase Bank more millions than Mr. Wiggin cares to remember...