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...year: 1857; the place: Dublin's Synge Street. Mrs. Lucinda Shaw has gone off on a visit to County Galway, leaving her one-year-old son George Bernard (known as "Bob") in care of his father, George Carr Shaw, co-partner in the respectable grain firm of Clibborn & Shaw. Naturally, mother Shaw wants to know exactly what catastrophes are taking place in her absence, so dutiful father Shaw picks up his pen and briefs...
Died. John Sanburn Phillips, 87, genial, Iowa-born editor credited with developing more prominent writers than any other editor of his generation; after long illness; in Goshen, N.Y. A partner (with Samuel S. McClure) in one of the first U.S. newspaper syndicates (1886), Phillips hired Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain * among his first contributors, later helped publish and manage McClure's Magazine, founded the American Magazine...
James H. White '21, partner in a brokerage house, said that in the investment field, selling and technical analysis divisions are open. Frank L. Tacker, treasurer of a radio firm, also spoke at the conference, sketching a general picture of the financial side of business...
Speakers at the meeting will include Joseph A. Erickson, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Frank L. Tucker, treasurer of the General Radio Company; and James H. White '21, a partner of the brokerage firm of Scudder, Stevens, and Clark...
Foreign Investment. Two oil companies made the first big postwar investments of U.S. private capital in Italy. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.)* became a partner in Italy's rig ANIC (Azienda Nazalonale Idrogena-zione Combustibili), by putting up $6,000,000. It will get a 50% interest in a new company which will modernize and operate two ANIC refineries, with a combined daily capacity of 16,000 barrels, at Leghorn and Bari. Caltex Oil Products Ho., joint subsidiary of the Texas Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California, bought an interest in Italy's Petrolea S.A., subsidiary of FIAT...