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...More Gianninis. Most surprising of all the changes made last week were those in management. Eight new directors were added, 22 old ones dropped. New directors included Frederic Winthrop Allen, Charles Edward Cotting and George Murnane, all partners of Lee, Higginson & Co. They also included presidents of two companies friendly with Lee, Higginson: Frederic C. Dumaine of Amoskeag Manufacturing (cotton mills) Co. and Charles W. Nash of Nash Motors Co. This indicated that the influential house of Lee, Higginson & Co. has a stake in the future of Transamerica, and more than any of the other changes answered the question...
...amiss if the Chicago community were to aid Mr. Louis Eckstein in his material support of the Ravinia Park summer opera. Bostonians have not to go abroad to find a citizen equally praiseworthy for his beneficence in a similar work. They have only to refer to Major Higginson...
...will blame him if, like Major Higginson and the Boston symphony orchestra, he feels that the community should carry on what he has so finely and generously begun. --Boston Herald...
George F. Baker and William Ziegler Jr., are Founder Members. Associates include such men as J. Pierpont Morgan '89, Vincent Astor, Cornelius N. Bliss '97, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, George Eastman, Francis Lee Higginson '00, Otto H. Kahn, Andrew W. Mellon Hon. '26, John J. Raskob, Jesse Isidor Straus '93, and Owen D. Young Hon. '24. The entire membership now number about 200; the remaining 50 of the complete enrolment will be filled from time to time in the future
...stock in return for Ericsson and is now thought to be the largest individual holder in the Behn Brothers' mighty sys tem. Immediately in line for the I. T. & T. directorate were both Herr Kreuger and his U. S. colleague, Frederic Winthrop Allen of Lee, Higginson & Co. Banker Kreuger will likewise become a member of International's executive committee. An artist in the world of finance, Herr Kreuger is especially versed in the subtle business of dealing with governments. He negotiates loans for them and in return gets rich concessions. Canny trader of the North...