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News that the Niagara-Hudson Power Corp. "Morgan Combine," had bought Frontier Power Corp., "Mellon Company" (see p. 41), sent billows rolling across the political sea. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (Democrat) declared that the fact that 80% of New York State is now served by one hydro-electric corporation made it necessary for him once again to urge the Legislature (Republican) to create a body of public trustees to develop St. Lawrence waterpower for the people. He called attention to the fact that although the power company may own the bank of the river, the state owns...
...measured a record-breaking turnover one day last week on the New York Curb Market. It was about a quarte-million shares over the previous high total (June 28). Utility trading accounted for the new high, 895.100 shares of Niagara Hudson Power turning over during...
...from favorable banking conditions. The directorate includes such men as Clement M. Keys (Curtiss-Wright Corp. airplanes), Walter P. Chrysler (automobiles), Lewis J. Horowitz (Thompson-Starrett, skyscrapers), Richard F. Hoyt (Hayden, Stone & Co. and Curtiss-Wright Corp. airplanes), Robert Lehman (Lehman Bros.), William Wrigley Jr. (gum), R. P. Stevens (Niagara-Hudson Power Corp., Morgan utility) and William H. Vanderbilt...
...Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, William Henry Grenfell, Baron Desborough of Taplow, famed afterdinner speaker, chairman of the Pilgrim Society of Great Britain. Baron Desborough has other distinctions quite as noteworthy. In his time he has stroked a crew across the English Channel, swum twice across the Niagara River, been champion swordsman of the British Army, Mayor of Maidenhead, chairman of the Fresh Water Fish Committee. But it is as chairman of the Pilgrims that he is now best known to the world. As such he publicly dines some prominent U. S. citizen nearly once a month.* Last...
...little party planned for the St. Catherine's Horse Show have made their reservations at Niagara Falls, be careful! One of your wives...