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William Nelson Cromwell was born in New Jersey in 1854. Graduated by Columbia Law School, he became a clerk in the Manhattan law office of Algernon Sidney Sullivan. Ten years later he was a partner. Lawyer Cromwell's most spectacular case occurred in 1902, when, with the assistance of a French engineer named Phillippe Bunau-Varilla, he succeeded in selling to the U. S. for $40,000,000 the French franchise to the Panama Canal over the rival bid of a Nicaraguan route. The firm of Sullivan & Cromwell had its richest successes in the bold bad days...
Henry G. Dalton, a partner in Pickands, Mather & Co., are producers and ship-building firm in Cleveland, was made chairman of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., succeeding 77-year-old James Anson Campbell whose health was broken in the titanic effort to merge Youngstown with Bethlehem. Mr. Campbell will assume a title new to finance: Chairman Emeritus...
...raised in the public market where city bonds were selling as low as 78. For a week "Jimmy" Walker went through a series of elaborate political contortions, in an attempt to frighten the bankers with a club called Humanity. Then he calmed himself. And then Thomas William Lamont, Morgan partner, Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City Bank and Winthrop Williams Aldrich of Chase National Bank entered into a series of private discussions. Mayor Walker met them in a variety of places including Mr. Mitchell's home on Fifth Avenue. The Mayor struck $110,000,000 worth of public works...
...banker, board chairman of The Manhattan Co. and (also founder) the International Acceptance Bank; of hypostatic pneumonia after a long illness; in Manhattan. Member of a potent Hamburg banking family (M. M. Warburg & Co., founded 1798), he married Nina, daughter of Solomon Loeb of Kuhn. Loeb & Co., became a partner, like his brother Felix, when he emigrated to the U. S. in 1902. He was a chief architect of the Federal Reserve System, nurtured it as a member of its first board. He became its most outspoken critic in 1929 for failing to hold clown inflation, and, last year...
Escudero developed his swaggering, in solent way along with an amazing foot technique, a thorough acquaintance with Spanish classical dancing and all its varied and intricate rhythms. Paris took him up. Artist Pablo Picasso designed his costumes. The late Anna Pavlova saw him, chose him for her partner on her next U. S. tour...