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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indicated that Bankers' Capital, instead of dealing in bank stocks, formed affiliated companies, buying stock in one and then selling it at a profit to another. In turn the affiliates used their resources to support the market in Bankers' Capital stock. From this procession of intramural deals Bankers' Capital last year earned enough to pay a special dividend of $17 a share ($2,000,000). Outstanding stock of Bankers' Capital and affiliated companies came...
Scheme No. 2 involved William T. Kemper, for some years Federal Receiver of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad, purchased last year by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé. Charges against Receiver Kemper were that in 1924 when stockholders thought the situation hopeless, he learned of oil discoveries along the line, of improved operating conditions, of terms in the Santa Fé deal that would make Orient gold convertible notes worth more than face value. Then, according to charges, he bought more than $1,000,000 of these notes at from 10˘ to 25˘ on a dollar, within a few months sold them...
Oldsters were amused last week at a Manhattan auction of Currier & Ives prints, which for 70 years have hung mostly unobserved in the parlors and kitchens of U. S. homesteads. Collectors and dealers lounging in the carpeted grand auction Hall of the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, concealed their excitement, made their bids. A Tight Fix, showing a bear at bay, brought $1,600. It took $1,450 to buy Home to Thanksgiving. A series of six prints revealing The Life oj a Fireman sold at its record price-$760 Youngsters, wondering at the homely titles and big price, wanted...
...That poster was sold last week...
Lowell Smith's Cross. For demonstrating six years ago the feasibility of air refueling, Capt. Lowell H. Smith last week received his Distinguished Service Flying Cross. His flight companion, Lieut. John P. Richter, already had his Cross...