Word: investors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not lend itself to such simplification. The House of Morgan is not sole owner of any of the utility companies in which it is interested; its holdings are usually no more than a substantial minority, not including an operating control; and if it chooses to regard itself as investor in many companies but as manager of none, such a position would certainly be statistically sound. The fact that so powerful a financial institution has become actively interested in utilities may be disconcerting to opponents of privately controlled light and power systems. But only a cartoonist could attempt to personify...
...citizen, 30 years a resident of Havana, and the Cuban Government. Only too well did he know that Mr. Barlow has been pressing a nine-million-dollar claim which has caused more alarums and excursions at the State Department than have the affairs of any other U. S. investor abroad. Mr. Barlow laid claim to 32 city blocks in the heart of Havana taken from him by the Cuban Government. His claim was based on a 400-year-old Spanish grant bounding the property ''as far as a dog's bark could be heard." Cuban courts...
...feel that by giving the small investor a chance to participate in the profits made in a sound enterprise is the surest way to prevent dishonesty and losses to those who can ill afford them...
...exchange devoted exclusively to realtors, the market for Winter securities would be better than if the financing was undertaken as an isolated effort. Furthermore, the Exchange will guarantee the validity of the securities listed, will appraise property values, investigate financial conditions in the companies offering securities, and provide the investor with reliable and impartial information on his prospective investments...
...must be clearly understood that the Exchange is not listing property itself, but only the securities of the corporations handling the property. The investor will not buy the Chanin Building at so much a share but will buy stock in the Chanin company. If the investing public can be induced to think of real estate in terms of stocks and bonds and not in terms of brick and earth, there would seem to be no reason why the investing public will not learn to trade in real estate securities...