Word: ricans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lids Toro, president of Porto American Tobacco Co. since it was founded in 1899, resigned, also resigned as chairman of the company's two big subsidiaries, Congress Cigar Co. Inc. and Waitt & Bond, Inc. President James M. Porter of Congress was made president of Porto Rican, President William E. Waterman of Waitt & Bond was made chairman of Porto Rican-a new office. Porto Rican makes Ricoro, La Restina, Portina, El Toro and other cigars, also El Toro Cigarets which are mostly sold in Porto Rico. Congress makes La Palina Cigars; Waitt & Bond makes Blackstones...
...There is also a 4%, issue of Consols, sold in 1927. These bonds have no maturity date. A favorite section is "Home Rails," including, of course, Great Western, London, Midland & Scottish, Southern, and Metropolitan ("Mets"). Foreign rails include Antofagasta-Bolivia Railroad ("Fags"), Canadian Pacific, and Costa Rican. The bank division lists the British banks, also Chartered Bank of India, Bank of Hongkong, National Bank of Egypt and others. Imperial Chemical heads the chemical group while the textiles include Celanese, Coats and Courtaulds. Industrials include Vickers (steel), De Havilland Aircraft, Imperial Airways, Cunard, Dunlop, Kreuger & Toll, Unilever, Swedish Match, British-American...
Because your reference to a Porto Rican burglar [TIME, July 6] reveals a spirit of contempt for Porto Ricans in general, I do not feel it rude on my part to reveal the following: Porto Rico has for long learned to associate American bankers with criminals and would have rejoiced at seeing them handcuffed to Porto Rican burglars long before this...
...misty morning in Manhattan last week a score of criminals plodded across the Bridge of Sighs from the Tombs to the Criminal Courts Building. At the head of the procession, handcuffed to a Porto Rican burglar, marched well-groomed Bernard K. Marcus, high-headed president of the defunct Bank of United States. Behind him with head bowed came Saul Singer, chairman of the executive committee, manacled to his 24-year-old son Herbert, bewildered dummy in the bank's subsidiaries. Week before all three had been convicted of wilfully misapplying $8,000,000 of Bank of United States...
...Both were schooled in Corsica and Paris. Sosthenes, the more aggressive of the two, went to Manhattan at the start of the century, grew a beard to look older than he was, went into the foreign banking trade. In 1906 both brothers took over their stepfather's Porto Rican sugar plantation. When the Porto Rico Telephone Co. fell into the hands of a friend who had accepted it in payment of a bad debt, the Behn Brothers took it over, combined with it the Cuban telephone system a few years later. They have been accumulating telephone and telegraph systems...