Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Investment bankers know that there is hoarded U. S. money yearning to buy safe securities, and corporations who need to borrow are learning this situation also. Borrowers are willing to pay less interest than heretofore, while investors are willing to accept less. Thus last week Standard Oil of New Jersey through J. P. Morgan & Co. offered $120,000,000 of debenture bonds at 5%. Morgan's merely opened their books and snapped them shut, for $500,000,000 in subscriptions tumbled in. Immediately, Standard Oil of New York offered $50,000,000 debenture bonds at 4½% interest. Dillon...
...Peirson '25 of Essex Falls, New Jersey, has been appointed coach of the Freshman hockey team for the coming season, according to an announcement by Director of Athletics William J. Bingham yesterday...
Some of the most promising candidates are Worth, who was chosen All-New Jersey forward last year; Wenner, also a forward; Winslow of Rovets, and, Waterman of Brooklyn Poly, Prep., both centers, F. Lewis, G. Lewis, and LaRue are showing the greatest promise of all the candidates for the guard positions...
Evidently, the Maine electorate preferred the alleged sins of Re publicanism to the alleged sins of Governor Brewster and of the Democratic nominee who spends much of his time in New Jersey. Mr. Gould was elected Senator by a majority of some 50,000. Governor Brewster was rebuked...
...Paris, niece of Washington Singer, Sheriff of Wiltshire, Eng., and of Sir Mortimer Singer, High Sheriff of Berkshire, Eng.; to Sir Reginald Arthur St. John Leeds, in London. She is granddaughter of Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-75), Oswego, N. Y., perfecter of sewing machines, founder of the New Jersey corporation which now internationally controls 80% of the world's output of sewing machines. Sir Mortimer, her uncle, balloonist and philanthropist, became a British subject in 1900, was knighted in 1920, for having donated a War hospital...