Word: investors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general began by saying that last summer Gerald McGuire, a bond salesman for G. M.P. Murphy & Co. of Manhattan, had approached him in behalf of a big private investor named Robert Sterling Clark, offered him $18,000 to address the American Legion convention in behalf of hard money. This the general refused to do. Then, said the general, McGuire. a onetime Connecticut Legion commander, had broached the big plan for the Fascist coup. Du Pont and Remington were putting up the arms. Morgan & Co. and G. M.P. Murphy & Co. were putting up $3,000.000 to raise an army...
...week prices stood just about where they were a year ago, with one notable exception. While industrial and rail shares had risen approximately 150% above their Depression lows of July 8, 1932, the battered utility averages were only one point above that subterranean ooze. An investor who bought the premier U.S. power & light stock, Consolidated Gas, at the 1932 low of $31.50 per share could not have sold it last week without taking a 29% loss...
...partitioning was merely one more proof that Mr. Jones is no passive investor. Because RFC money is almost invariably involved, reorganization plans must satisfy Mr. Jones as well as the courts, the Interstate Commerce Commission and the security holders. Last week Cleveland's Oris Paxton Van Sweringen dropped in to see Mr. Jones about pulling Missouri Pacific out of the courts. In referring to plans for reorganizing Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Mr. Jones announced that he might have one or two ideas. Fortnight ago when ICCommissioner Mahaffie flatly refused to approve RFC loans to several carriers including New York...
Died. Percy Avery Rockefeller, 56, son of the late William G. Rockefeller, nephew of John D. Rockefeller Sr.; following a stomach operation; in Manhattan. Little known to the public, he was a shrewd, quiet investor in a score of corporations. Year ago he resigned from the board of National City Bank whose onetime President Charles E. Mitchell he had backed...
...conceive it to be an important part of the job we are trying to do here in the SEC to reassure capital as to its safety in going ahead and to reassure the investor as to the protection of his interests...