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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fluctuations of nearly $15,000,000 in the total value of, shares in British Royal Mail-world's largest shipping corporation-resulted last week when Tycoon Viscount St. Davids quarreled violently with his brother Tycoon Baron Kylsant, Chairman of the B. R. M., "Lord of the Seven Seas...
...position. He added that General Motors had no intention of shipping into the U. S. cars from its foreign plants, that these plants were made to supply cars to the countries in which they were located. He saw no danger of a foreign car invasion. Next came R. I. Roberge, Ford export manager. A peculiar aspect of the Roberge testimony was his insistence that he spoke for Son Edsel Ford, did not know what Father Henry Ford thought about auto tariffs. Asked why Henry Ford had not appeared, Mr. Roberge suprisingly replied that Henry Ford had received no invitation. After...
...many to save $500 without having good banking judgment. Because Clarke Bros, conducted a private banking business, they have been erroneously described as a private bank. A private bank is really an entirely different kind of institution. It is fully supervised. It carries on a restricted, specialized business. Example: R. H. Macy's, Manhattan department store, is a private bank because it accepts deposits, pays interest, is in the banking business, but it is primarily a department store and its depositors are its customers. Neither private banks nor private bankers affect the stability of the standard, normal, supervised, incorporated savings...
...Samuel R. Rosoff arrived in Manhattan from Russia for the second time in his life. On his first arrival he was an 11-year-old potato-peeler. Last week he occupied princely staterooms on the Berengaria. In Russia he, a potent Manhattan contractor, turned down a 200-million-dollar subway and waterworks contract for Moscow, because the U. S. does not recognize the Soviets...
...Marblehead. Oldster Team. England last week chose four oldsters, one youngster for the null man Cup team which will play in the U. S. at Forest Hills, L. I., next month. The team: Mrs. D. C. Shepherd-Barron, Mrs. P. H. Covefl, Mrs. M. H. Watson, Mrs. L. R. C. (Peggy Saunders) Mitchell, Miss Betty Nuthall. Youngsters passed over: Eileen Bennett, Joan Fry, Joan Ridley. Fight. Because he seemed to have no intention of carrying out an old contract with Arthur Bulow, his onetime manager, Heavyweight Max Schmeling was forbidden to box in New York State by the State Boxing...