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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...works of art there has recently come to the Fogg Museum a loan of some thirty paintings. On account of the number and diversified character, they are exhibited, at least for the present, among the Museum's other pictures. Many of them deserve mention, but the leaders in general interest are three portraits by Romney, Reynolds, and Raeburn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 5/3/1938 | See Source »

...defense of its present officers. Last week at the C. & O. meeting in Richmond they did so 3,175,000 shares (41%) strong, said to be the largest number of stockholders by person or proxy at any meeting in C. & O. history. Since Chesapeake Corp. has only a 35% interest, Robert Young felt pretty sure last week that even if he loses his control through the holding companies, the present officers of C. & O. will keep their jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stairs v. Elevator | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Military Academy, plays good golf, is extraordinarily neat. To his friends he is known as "Babbling Brooke" because he says so little. Says Robert Young: "He opens his mouth every other day and devotes the rest of his time to the C. & O." Mr. Young claims that the Guaranty interests would rather see a C. & O. president whose chief interest is in railroad finance instead of in trains. The issue will presumably be settled May 10 when C. & O. plans to meet again. By that time the court may have given Guaranty undisputed right to vote the Chesapeake Corp. stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stairs v. Elevator | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...terms." Thus added to the record was the name of the second Morgan partner who was in a position last fall to warn the Stock Exchange of the insolvency of Richard Whitney. ¶ After Burco, Inc., an investment trust, used 75% ($725.000) of its funds to acquire a minority interest in an inconspicuous Canadian company called Delta Oil Co., Ltd., the New York Curb Exchange suspended trading in Burco shares. The Curb said it was curious to learn what made Delta so valuable. New York Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. said he was curious to learn what connection there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Jams | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

These were speedily confirmed as Lawyer Arthur Ballantine. trustee for an investment trust named Continental Securities Corp. now in a 776 reorganization, charged through his counsel that a group of unnamed Canadians had bought a controlling interest in the trust last October for approximately $50,000 when its portfolio held securities worth some $3,300.000, and that Continental has since been looted so thoroughly that only $20,000 in marketable securities are left. In the process Continental acquired control of an investment trust named Reynolds Investing Co., which is now being investigated by SEC. Brokerage transactions for both were handled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Jams | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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