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According to the text of the resolution by the Associated Harvard Clubs when the gift was voted, it is intended to foster good-will and mutual understanding between the oldest University in the United States and the largest and one of the oldest in South America. The fellowship will bring a student to Harvard for two years, beginning in 1929. The gift was announced in Boston yesterday by H. M. Williams, '85, President of the Associated Harvard Clubs...
...step taken last week was the indictment, by the Federal Grand Jury in Buffalo of 30 Canadian distillers and their agents, including Board-Chairman Harry C. Hatch of the Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts distillery, Canada's largest. The offense charged: conspiracy-to-smuggle. The significance: none, unless Distiller Hatch & friends set foot in the U. S. Under the present treaty they cannot be extradited...
Banks. In Chicago the First National Bank and its subsidiary, the First Trust and Savings Bank, absorbed the Union Trust Co. The merger created the ninth largest bank...
...Largest bank: National City, Manhattan. Largest under one roof: Continental-Illinois, Chicago...
With Blair & Co. in Prairie, with Cutten in Sinclair, drawers of inferences soon began to predict a Prairie-Sinclair merger. Point One: Elisha Walker is a Sinclair director-a potent and obvious point. Point Two: Prairie Oil & Gas, with assets of $186,323,925, is the largest U. S. producer of crude oil. Harry F. Sinclair needs constantly more oil for the Sinclair Refining Co. Obviously happy would be an arrangement whereby Sinclair refineries could call upon Prairie Oil, whereby Prairie Oil would have an affiliated customer in Sinclair Refining. Why should not Sinclair Directors Walker and Cutten confer together...