Word: seligmans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nicaraguan President Adolfo Diaz, recognized by the U. S., has been consistently in such close harmony with U. S. nationals that he obtained last March a loan of $1,000,000 from the Manhattan firms of J. & W. Seligman & Co., and the Guaranty Trust Co. Therefore, last week it was only necessary for Presidential Representative Stimson to be firm with the Liberal faction of Nicaragua, whose President, Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, has been recognized as President of Nicaragua by the Mexican Government and has been declared to be the rightful holder of this office by the Chairman...
...Commerce that more than half their customers demanded vanilla flavor. One-tenth would take chocolate, one-twelfth strawberry. The remaining customers took the various flavors put together by the dispensers. One-eighth ate brick cream, seven-eighths the more familiar bulk. Million a Day. Speyer & Co. with J. & W. Seligman & Co. bought 245,000 shares constituting control of Victor Talking Machine Co. from its President Eldridge R. Johnson a fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 20). In ten days the stock went up 40 points, bringing the bankers' paper profits of $10,000,000. Crops Worth Less. Steadily since...
...years ago took the squeak out of toy phonographs like the ones he saw at Coney Island; his son, E. R. Fenimore Johnson, and his secretary, H. R. Hathaway, turned over a majority holding of common stock in the Victor Talking Machine Co. to J. and W. Seligman & Co., Manhattan brokers, and Speyer & Co., Manhattan bankers. For all 348,863 shares outstanding, the buyers were prepared to pay some 40 millions hospital, coal wharf, the largest yard of African mahogany and other cabinet woods in the world. Out of the town have come instruments by the tens of thousands...
...Manhattan banking firms of Speyer & Co. and J. & W. Seligman & Co. now control the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. (the Frisco). In the past two months, they have quietly been buying up a substantial interest in the Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. (the Rock Island), an interest which the directors of the Frisco announced last week had been acquired by them with a view to merging the two systems. The new system will have the longest trackage in the world-13,585 miles, 5,546 in the Frisco and 8,039 in the Rock Island-overrunning by more than...
...Strauses are not to be confused with Strausses, among whom there are Joseph, famed Admiral; Albert, of Joseph Seligman & Co.; Charles, lawyer; Lewis Lichtenstein, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. ; Richard, famed Bavarian composer...