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Save for Chairman Alvan Emile Duerr of the Interfraternity Conference, all contributors to the first issue of The American Scholar are Phi Beta Kappas. Among them: Owen D. Young, Mary Emma Woolley (see p. 14), President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, Physicist Karl Taylor Compton, Hermann Hagedorn, John William Davis, Dorothy Canfield Fisher. The casual reader, glancing through the high intellectual pages of The American Scholar, might well wonder if some one had not made a horrible mistake in printing this...
Meanwhile the rumor persisted that the Metropolitan was so hard hit financially that it might have to curtail its present season or disband in the spring. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, some said, resigned as board chairman this autumn because he was tired of playing patron. But people who believed that knew little of the Metropolitan's workings. Banker Kahn owns from 70 to 80% of the producing company's stock but, contrary to the impression he sometimes gives, he has never "backed" it in the sense that Mr. & Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick once backed Chicago's Opera or that Louis...
When Otto Hermann Kahn testified last month before the Senate Finance Committee on international banking and War Debts, he was asked for a list of defaulted foreign bonds held in the U. S. Obliging Banker Kahn got a list from the Institute of International Finance. Made public last week by the Senate Committee, the list was gloomy reading, showed $815,000,000 worth of dollar bonds in default. There were 57 issues listed, every one the obligation of some South American government, state or municipality. Bolivia, Brazil, Chile. Peru have defaulted on their government bonds. In Colombia and Uruguay payments...
...Uruguayan editors U. S. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn also seemed last week to have horns, a tail. His diabolic act was to have testified before the U. S. Senate Finance Committee that "in the case of Germany there are hardly any [foreign bonds] in default. In the case of South America and Central America, unfortunately, the great majority are in default...
...over the old name. Both Kidder, Peabody and Kissel, Kinnicutt hold memberships in the New York Stock Exchange although the former has not occupied its seat. Kissel, Kinnicutt has been active in underwriting and banking as well as on the Exchange. New partner of Kidder, Peabody will be Gustav Hermann Kinnicutt, 54, senior member of his firm. Four of his old partners will be associated with him, two will become members in a new firm. The newly merged firm of Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider, second largest wire house, continued its expansion by acquiring the business and offices of Moyse & Barry, Stock...