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...Chrysler, like other Manhattan landlords, was having trouble finding tenants. Passersby thought they saw signs of economizing in the dimming of the building's lobby lights at night and the failure of searchlights to play on the 1,046-ft. pinnacle as advertised. Another seeming portent was a lien on the building filed by Architect William Van Alen to collect $725,000 of the $865,000 he claimed was due him. Most persistent and grave of all rumors was the story that Mr. Chrysler no longer held control of Chrysler Building Corp. (not connected with Chrysler Corp.). This gravest report...
...Oren Root, 57, president of Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Co., owners and operators of the Hudson River tubes (Manhattan-New Jersey subway route), onetime motorman, conductor, inspector on the oldtime metropolitan street railway system of New York. During his eleven-year presidency, Hudson & Manhattan obligations rose in the market: 1st lien 5% bonds, from 57 to 99½; adjusted mortgage income 5% bonds from 16 to 83⅜; preferred and common stocks from almost no sale to 81 and 48⅝respectively. On the preferred stock, a dividend of 2½% semiannually was instituted. Reasons for resignation: "Entirely personal...
...Disbandment Bonds," secured by a lien on customs revenues, will be issued within the next fortnight, are earmarked to be retired by the Nationalist Govern-ment "within 100 months" (eight and one-third years...
...despise votes cast with mental reservations!" cried Il Duce in Rome on the day before election. "Nobody should delude himself that he will be able to place an eventual ephemeral lien on the future development of the regime through a handful of ballots, as the regime of tomorrow will be more of a totality than yesterday...
...line. The second and third students to register were his sister Mathilda, his brother "Ron." His grandfather, Capt. Levi Scott was the university's first janitor. His father, William J. J. Scott, it was who loaned $2,000 to keep the sheriff from foreclosing a contractor's lien on the institution's one and only building, Deady Hall...