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Even in Boston the mutations of time make themselves known; some visually, some tangibly, some even socially. Miss Lowell and Mrs. Jack Gardner no longer dominate Symphony Hall and the Fenway, respectively, the good burghers of Beacon Street draw a veil over the unhappy memory of Lee Higginson's supremacy in State Street, President Lowell is abandoning Harvard to its fate, and now Charles E. Alexander, of "The Boston Evening Transcript," has resigned to seek the ease with honor to which his thirty-five years as absolute arbiter of Boston society entitle him. Perhaps only Bostonians will recognize the cataclysmic...
Wilbur Cortez Abbott. Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, will conduct the services this morning at 8.45 o'clock in Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church...
Francis Lee Higginson...
...Paris the firm of Lee, Higginson et Cie. last week announced a similar move but the affiliated London house, Higginson & Co., planned to continue. A new firm will be formed with outside capital. It will be called Lee, Higginson Corp. and will carry on a securities business in Manhattan, Boston and Chicago. It will also do a small deposit business and trade in acceptances. Being a corporation it can belong to no stock exchange. But while this company will perpetuate the name, last week the career of Boston's old partnership seemed ended...
While Lee, Higginson & Co. planned these changes last week the investigation of Herr Kreuger's affairs went on apace. In Stockholm police were searching 150 sacks of waste paper for clues regarding Kreuger transactions. The first actual jail sentence in the case came when Bror Bregberg, one of Kreuger's associates, was fined $162,000 and sent to jail for nine months at hard labor. In Manhattan Anders Jordahl, crony of Ivar Kreuger, admitted that Herr Kreuger might have "been short a few shares" at the time of his death. Other than this he had little...