Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swift-tongued rumor had been busy before, anticipating a merger of banks in Boston, a merger in particular between Old Colony Trust Co. and First National Bank. Last week Philip Stockton, president of Old Colony, admitted that his company had entered merger discussions which had been broken off-and then renewed, with no decision yet reached. Believing that what a bank president calls a possibility is a sure thing, would-be stockholders eagerly hoisted the price of Old Colony stock in one day from $815 (bid) to $910 (bid). Very little stock was offered...
...Old Colony has resources of $207,000,000 and five Boston branches besides its main office. First National has $403,000,000 of resources, and besides its main office, twelve branches in Boston, one in Buenos Aires, three in Cuba (at Havana, Santiago, Cienfugos). If the merger is effected it will produce no chain of banks, but one $610,000.000 bank with a head office and 22 branch offices...
...Michigan, Illinois, and Armour Institute of Technology (Chicago). They study in the summer session under architects of the Chicago region, on the campus of Lake Forest College. Thus far difficulty has been encountered finding really able candidates for instruction. Most Midwestern architectural students feel the need of going to old-established-and foreign-influenced-schools such as Pennsylvania, Columbia, Yale, and spending their summers abroad...
Last fortnight's Foundation news was as stimulating to old-established imaginations as it probably will be hard to "sell" to the kind of imaginations it aimed to benefit: Condé Nast, eastern smartchart publisher (House & Garden, Vogue, Vanity Fair) promised the Foundation $2,500 per year for three years for unique traveling fellow-ships-unique because all the traveling will be done, not among European chalets, chateaux and cathedrals, but in the U. S. among barns, grain-elevators, oil-cracking plants...
...could remember Chéri as a baby ... by turns adored or forgotten, matured among blotchy maids and tall sardonic valets. . . ." At 14 Chéri fled from boarding school restraint, at 18 he was a miniature old man with black circles under his eyes, "a fussy little property owner with his nose in everything"?needlessly, for his mother was a well-paid harlot...