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...both Commissioners Chadbourne & Swope had excursioned to Paris, there to witness a contemporary demonstration of the ancient truth that one horse can run faster than another. But between chills, thrills, the U. S. representatives had also won a complete, a memorable, a monumental victory. For last week Sir Hugo Hirst, British G. E.'s Managing Director, announced that his company's "British Only" stock issue had been unconditionally withdrawn. Thus the principle of financial internationalism was thoroughly vindicated; thus the U. S. financier can send his dollars across the ocean, confident that they will meet with at least...
...know, they had come to London to combat the recent decision (TIME, April 1) of British General Electric Co., Ltd., to restrict a forthcoming stock issue to British citizens exclusively. This plan aroused much opposition on both sides of the Atlantic. One British M. P. even denounced Sir Hugo Hirst, British G. E.'s managing director, as "a super-patriot of German origin"-the reference being to the fact that Sir Hugo, though now a Britisher, was born in Munich. So Sir Hugo, discovering himself to be an unpopular minority, postponed the issue, pending conferences with representatives...
...though the British public learned many new facts concerning U. S. financiers, neither the British nor the U. S. public could squeeze information out of the official communiques concerning the Hirst-Chadbourne-Swope meetings. The first report said that "no conclusion was arrived at at this morning's amicable meeting." Further meetings were delayed when Mr. Chadbourne was taken with a chill. It is known, however, that Sir Hugo has proposed a compromise arrangement by which U. S. shareholders can exercise their rights in the new issue, provided that they sell their new shares within ten weeks. This arrangement...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Robert Home. Present to discuss Anglo-German industrial problems in secretive round table fashion were some of the foremost financiers of Britain and Germany: President Evan Williams of the British Mine Owners Association; former Chancellor Cuno, Chairman of the Hamburg-American Line; Sir Hugo Hirst, Chairman of the British General Electric Co.; Dr. Sorge, a director of Krupp...
...patrons include Mrs. Clarence Millheiser, Mrs. Minette Hirst, Dr. and Mrs. Seymour Oppenheimer, William Braden, Edgar J. Kauffman, Colonel Herbert H. Lehman, Forry S. Lancks, Messmore Kendall, Colonel Walter D. Scott, Mr: and Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Winkler, Mrs. Irena Hopper, Robert Gillespi, Sir Joseph Duveen, Frank Stoors...