Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point far above its market value. Therefore National City stockholders refused to ratify the merger, and plop!?back went National City to a size well below London's great Midland Bank. This unfortunate development was followed by many wild rumors, so widespread as to call forth from Mr. Mitchell a denial that he contemplated resignation or that his directors were at odds with him. Rumors had been based partly on the suspicion of a difference of opinion concerning the calling of loans by National City branches...
...Thus Mr. Mitchell and his troubles. But Mr. Mitchell likes exercise and combat. He daily goes through setting up exercises, frequently walks from his home (No. 934 Fifth Avenue) to his office (No. 55 Wall Street). He likes surf-swimming, the rougher the better. He plays tennis with slams and bangs. As he sits at his rather old-fashioned desk, overlooked by a picture of George Washington, and listens to his three telephones ringing, his curved eyebrows may become a bit more Mephistophelian as he remembers one of his pet business maxims?that the typical U. S. system...
...weeks ago George Hannauer, late President of the Boston & Maine, died of heart failure while watching the Yale-Dartmouth game. Last week the B. & M. elected Board Chairman Thomas Nelson Perkins, Harvard Fellow, as acting President. Mr. Perkins has been an outstanding lawyer in Massachusetts for some 35 years. He was the first American member of the Reparations Commission, and in the Reparations Conference last spring he was alternate to Owen D. Young. That he is a Boston aristocrat does not weigh too heavily on his shoulders. He is noted for his democracy and humor...
...Mr. Cooke went among the Buffalonians and told them the University ought to be endowed. Some 24,000 citizens gave $5,177,000. This year Mr. Cooke went forth again and when his drive ended last week, some 30,000 contributors had given, despite a crushing stockmarket. more than...
...Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Hoover spent Saturday afternoon watching a tough Georgetown quarterback named Johnny Scalzi do the running and throw most of the passes that held the Navy to a scoreless...