Word: junes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, mansion, a 46-acre estate at Alpine, N. J., a Venetian palazzo at Sarasota, Fla. At Sarasota he has a museum, but not in the circus sense of the word. It is filled with Gainsboroughs, Romneys, Corots, Tintorettos, and works of many another classicist, but no moderns. Last June he bought Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross, price $40,950. The museum (largest south of the Mason-Dixon line) is built of marble taken from the temples of ancient Greece...
Entrance of the Morgan company into the utility field came in January 1929, with the formation of United Corporation, a company established by J. P. Morgan & Co., Drexel & Co. and Bonbright & Co. and with executive offices at 23 Wall St. (Morgan home). By June 29, United Corp. had the following holdings in the following utilities...
...June 29 these holdings were valued at $287, 919,008. United Gas Improvement and Public Service of New Jersey (its subsidiary) are both Mellon-controlled, and are expansions of the original United Gas Improvement Company which supplied gas to Philadelphia. Commonwealth and Southern Corp. is a holding company for Commonwealth Power Corp., which in turn operates companies all the way from Michigan to Georgia. Its largest single holder is American Superpower which has some 10,000,000 shares. Allied Power & Light is also a holding company, operating chiefly in the middle west, its list of operating companies partly duplicating...
...been the Mohawk-Hudson power interest that has brought the Morgan Company most of its publicity as a utility factor. Mohawk-Hudson was organized jointly by United Gas Improvement and General Electric. It functions throughout northeastern New York, with Albany its southern centre. In June (TIME, June 24) two other New York state utilities merged with Mohawk-Hudson, extended the Mohawk-Hudson territory west to Buffalo and northeast along the St. Lawrence. The merged company was christened Niagara-Hudson. New York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt is said to be dubious concerning the legality of this merger, although...
...Chicago, was the hero of the story which he wrote himself. Many another U. S. newspaper retold the tale of woe (TIME, June 3). Convict Burns got much sympathy. Letters, telephone calls, personal visits to Illinois and Georgia authorities besought a pardon for much-pitied Convict Burns...