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...have lost popularity. The customer must turn and change face quite briskly to get different poses while the camera shutter flicks eight times. President is Major General Robert Courtney Davis (retired), onetime Adjutant General of the U. S. Army. Last October Photomaton Inc. and its operating company went into receivership. Whereabouts and activities of Anatol Josepho, Russian-born inventor, who reputedly received $1,000,000 for the Photomaton idea, last week were unknown to company officials...
...reduction was largely the triumph of a condition over a theory. Paper mills have been operating at about 50% of capacity. Canada Power & Paper has been unable to earn interest on its bonds. Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. is in a receivership...
...offices of Governor Albert Henry Wiggin and whined: "I am the ghost of William Fox's mismanagement of Fox Film Corp. I was created during the wild days of 1929 when he expanded quickly and without funds. Last year I was temporarily silenced when Fox Film fought off receivership by selling $55,000,000 notes to mature in twelve months. Since then I have haunted Harley Lyman Clarke, who is president of Fox. Also I have haunted Halsey, Stuart & Co. and Pynchon & Co. who played close to Fox. If you fail to silence me, nobody else can. What...
Withdrawal. Last year when Fox Film was hovering near receivership, its old bankers, Halsey, Stuart & Co., put up a marvelous fight. But this year Halsey, Stuart & Co. did not behave as intrepid ghost-layers should. On the eve of Mr. Wiggin's party an announcement was made that Halsey, Stuart & Co. had retired from the entire proceedings. Wall Street became a little more nervous. The ghost, it seemed, must indeed be a big ghost if Halsey, Stuart & Co. backed out, for the firm was one of the first houses to finance motion picture enterprises. Rumored as the chief reason...
...Receivership for P. R. T. "Subservient directors who did the Mitten bidding at a glance or a nod, to the end that the nefarious schemes hatched at before-dawn breakfasts, might, in their opinion, have the stamp of legality," were denounced last week by Judge Harry S. McDevitt who thereupon ordered the Mitten-managed Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. into receivership. Mitten Management, Inc. is headed by Dr. Arthur Alan Mitten, son of the late famed Thomas Eugene Mitten, transit expert...