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...State Railwaymen, cut 6%; 3) rejuggling of taxation to avert an estimated $250,000,000 deficit at the end of the fiscal year (the tobacco tax, for example, being raised $40,000,000) plus a $125,000,000 "Reform Loan" to be floated (probably by Manhattan's Lee, Higginson & Co. heading an international group...
...Boston. Most ambitious of the season's programs is that mapped out by the Boston Symphony. The occasion warrants it. Fifty years have passed since the late Major Henry Lee Higginson undertook to provide Bostonians with a permanent orchestra, brought over German George Henschel to take first command. Despite his 80 years, Henschel came back last week to inaugurate the jubilee season with a repetition of his original program. Conductor Sergei Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky anticipated the opening with a superb radio concert, planned his actual return for the season's second week. Scheduled for the winter are the premieres of many...
This relationship has been largely due to the personal interest of the late Major Henry Lee Higginson in both institutions. Major Higginson was the founder of the orchestra, and for long a fellow of Harvard College; throughout his life he worked to bring them together as much as possible. The plans for the Sanders Theatre series of concerts were drawn up by him, in organizing the orchestra, as an essential part of its program. They have contributed both enjoyment and educational benefit to fifty years of Harvard faculty and students...
...bankers at not less than $30 (present market price of new: $22⅝). Quickly born were reports that this block will go to Herr Kreuger's group. In Sweden, the Match King denied it by saying he has taken no part in the present transaction. Also, Lee, Higginson & Co., his U. S. bankers, said they had heard no.thing of it. But the fact remained that Diamond does not need cash if it has enough to give a $25 extra dividend, is therefore selling this stock for another reason. Strange was the fact that from Diamond's mystery-shrouded...
This year the Harvard Union which was given to the University in the will of Major Henry Lee Higginson will be entering upon its thirty-first year. This year it will continue its customary program which will include a number of speeches by famous explorers, diplomats and other distinguished persons and several tea dances...