Word: ltd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...financier whose calling cards gave his address as "St. James Court, Buckingham Gate, S. W. I." Mr. Harrison was already under Federal indictment for flagrantly misrepresenting the assets of a certain Big Wedge Gold Mining Co., of California. This time his promotion of "The London Curb Exchange, Ltd." had aroused suspicion. Mr. Harrison, free under bond, had been around New York for some time trying to sell stock in this enterprise. The royal neighborhood of his address was not inappropriate, because the chief backer of the London Curb was none other than Martin Coles Harman, famed onetime "King...
...browed King Harman was exiled by the British Government in 1933 after a reign of eight years on his cold granite island twelve miles north of the Devon coast. His exile was spent in Wormwood Scrubs prison, where he served 18 months for misappropriating the funds of Chosen Corp., Ltd., a holding company for Korean mining stocks. His only previous brush with the law occurred in 1931, when a Devonshire Court fined him ?5 for coining Lundy money in the form of 50,000 "puffins"' and "half puffins" bearing his own likeness and that of Lundy's "national...
...features make it impossible for the C.I.O. to climb the Canadian grades in the same gear which it used in Detroit. The hill across the border is less steep, for General Motors Ltd. largely gave way before the strike commenced. The forty-hour week, extra pay for overtime, grievance committees, and seniority rights are conceded by the company, which opposes most stiffly the question of union recognition. Negotiations on this issue await only the withdrawal from the employee delegation of an agent of the Detroit United Autoniobile Workers. It is the extraordinarily aggressive tactics of the C.I.O. agitators swarming...
...York, which was obviously the place most concerned about Ireland's Sweepstakes and England's horse race, the doings of Sweepstakes winners were recorded by the press with diligence and gusto, as were the doings of British Sidney Freeman of the London bookmakers firm of Douglas Stuart, Ltd. ("Duggie"), who visits the U. S. three times a year, achieves a neat profit for his firm by buying an interest in potentially valuable sweepstakes tickets before the race...
...York Representative Roxburgh. Colin Scott & Cox, Ltd. Xew York City...