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Prestige was the prime requisite for the first President of the B. I. S. and who had more prestige than gruff, Scotch-blooded Gates W. McGarrah, then board chairman of New York's Federal Reserve Bank? On the other hand what U. S. citizen knew the whole European set-up well enough to act as august President McGarrah's adviser? From the first Banker McGarrah took to Lawyer Fraser. He was elected...
...Workers!" Last week no such banners were reported. After the Yokohama smashing, white Singer employes continued to live, as they have for several months, in the closely guarded Grand Hotel. Eightyper cent of "household type" Singer sewing machines sold in Japan are made by Scotsmen in Singer's Scotch plant. Ninety-nine per cent of Singer stock is said to be owned...
Jean-Louis Forain is by no means the only artist Mr. Wiggin collects. He boasts the most-complete-in-the-world collections of three famed Scotch etchers: James McBey, Muirhead Bone, Sir David Young Cameron. Among his hundreds of miscellaneous prints is the famed "Hundred Guilder Print" of Rembrandt's "Christ Healing the Sick...
...Nash began as a carriage-trimmer in the old Flint Road Cart Co. From 1912 through 1916 he presided over General Motors, having rehabilitated the old Buick Motor Car Co. He then formed his own company. Its home is in Kenosha, where also is the famed bedmaking Simmons Co. Scotch-descended Mr. Nash's specialty is cost-paring and Nash can now break even if it sells i.ooo cars a month. In its early years it jumped production rapidly but canny Mr. Nash sensed the tapering demand, stopped his expansion in time. During the trying third quarter ending...
...rant, plead or threaten, for & against. In a decade and one-half Prohibition had been argued threadbare. There was nothing new or sensational left to say. Only stunt: appearance before the House of New York's Sirovich, a physician, with 18 bottles of beer, a pint of Scotch whiskey, a quart of milk and a declaration that the 18 bottles of beer contained the same amount of alcohol as the pint of whiskey, that in physical composition the beer and milk were equally good as food...