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James E. O'Neil, once head of Prairie Oil & Gas Co., died last year at Cannes, France, whither he had fled in 1924 to escape telling the Senate and the courts about Continental Trading Co. Ltd., the corporate dummy through which the $3,080,000 Mexia Field swag was collected, $230,500 of which went to Fall...
Allan Anderson Aitken, 42, younger brother of Lord Beaverbrook (William Maxwell Aitken, 53) was elected president of Price Brothers & Co. Ltd., 115-year-old Canadian newsprint and pulp firm, succeeding Lieut.-Colonel John Herbert Price, grandson of Founder William Price. Mr. Price was made operating vice president. He resigned from, the directorate, making way for Lord Beaverbrook. These and other changes were thought to mark assumption of the firm's management if not stock-control by Lord Beaverbrook. Significant were Lord Beaverbrook's statements that no mergers or combines were in the offing, that "Price Brothers will...
...British Isles it is not His Majesty's Government which broadcasts but a private monopoly licensed by Parliament, the B. B. C. or British Broadcasting Co. Ltd. Its motto: "Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation...
Anglo & London Paris National dates back to 1909 when it was formed as a merger of two powerful banks. One of these was Anglo-California Bank, Ltd., founded in 1873 by J. & W. Seligman & Co., a year after Ogden Livingston Mills's grandfather had converted his private bank in Sacramento to proudly-named "National Gold Bank of D. O. Mills & Co." The other was London, Paris & American Bank, Ltd., formed in 1884 by Lazard Freres to take over their private banking business in San Francisco. The year when these two banks merged the new Anglo-California Trust Co., Mortimer...
Control of Columbia was lately bought by Grigsby-Grunow, devout worshippers of the mass production fetish. A year ago Columbia was cast out of British Columbia Graphophone Co. when that company merged with Gramophone Co., Ltd., subsidiary of RCA-Victor Co. to form Electric & Musical Industries, Ltd...