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Banking houses in seven great centres of finance interchanged telephone calls, cable messages. In Manhattan, the house of Lee, Higginson & Co. knew what associated houses were doing in London, in Berlin, in Sweden, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium. At a given moment, last week, the seven groups acted together, announced a Swedish financing deal...
...seven countries were invited to buy participating debentures of Kreuger & Toll Co The par value of the issue was only 45.000,000 kronor (about $11,000,000). But the market value of the debentures was six or seven times this amount. The American banking group, headed by Lee, Higginson,* offered American certificates representing debentures of 20 kronor par value at $28.14. In the first day's trading in Manhattan they rose to about $35. Lucky investors who had advance orders confirmed by the bankers realized a huge profit in a few hours...
Jerome Davis Greene, Manhattan Republican, partner in Lee, Higginson & Co., long associated with the Rockefeller Foundation. Reason: doubt that Nominee Hoover has sufficient "diplomacy and tact" to lead Congress and public opinion...
Married. Joan Higginson, daughter of Francis Lee Higginson, partner of Lee Higginson & Co. (Boston investment bank); to Alexander Mackay-Smith of Manhattan; in Boston...
...clock: Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mrs. John N. Barbee, Mrs. Conrad Bell, Mrs. Francis Higginson, Mrs. Frank O. Magie, Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. Joseph Warren...