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...journey to Madrid. Three days later came the announcement: an international credit of $60,000,000 for the Spanish Government had been established. J. P. Morgan & Co. and associates (Chase National Bank; Bankers Trust Co.; National City Bank; Guaranty Trust Co.; Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; Dillon, Read & Co.; Lee, Higginson & Co. and others) would underwrite $38,000,000 of this, the rest to be subscribed by a European group under the leadership of the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas. France, of course, took no official part, but shrewd reporters suspected that some of the surplus gold in the Bank...
...Industrial Revolution in the 18th Century erased the last stigma; banking became a noble, honored profession. But much longer did there remain feeling against the moneylender who finances wage-earners with little loans. In 1928, Wall Street was genuinely surprised to hear that the old, conservative house of Lee, Higginson & Co. was offering stock in Household Finance Corp., a company whose business consists of lending $100 to $300 at 2½% a month...
After all only $32,000,000 was loaned to Germany last week, at 6½%. England, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden and the U. S. participated with Goodwill Lender France. Manhattan's Lee, Higginson & Co. head the loaning consortium. Jewish éclat is furnished notably by Mendelssohn & Co. of Amsterdam, N. M. Rothschild & Sons...
Quietly, efficiently, an investigation was conducted by three Groton trustees (Harvard men, Boston businessmen) : Francis Lee Higginson, Charles Pelham Curtis Jr., James Lawrence. Last week it was revealed that the acts had been committed by two Groton graduates: Harvard Senior Edward K. Jenkins of Warrenton, Va., member of the Harvard polo team, and Daniel Merriman (dropped from Harvard in his junior year and awaiting re-entry), son of Harvard History Professor Roger Bigelow Merriman. They had gone to Groton after a football game. They were drunk...
Three famous men, Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, Walter Pritchard Eaton '00, and A. A. Gleason '86, have accepted memberships on the Harvard Debating Council, it was announced last night. They will constitute a board which will act in an advisory capacity to the council during the ensuing year...