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...Although France is the chief asylum of Tsarist refugees and definitely the power most hostile to Russia, still, last week, La Société Pétrofina Française signed a new, bigger-than-ever contract for Red oil to be consumed in France...
...claimed his Electric Bond & Share would eventually manage all the power companies of the world. Far-distant as this may be, last week's deal gave Bond & Share a large wedge in the European utility situation and placed it in a position to compete with the melliferous Sofina (Société Financière de transports et d'enterprises industrielles), which is second in size only to Bond & Share, operates throughout Europe and in South America. Sofina is a vast holding company controlled by the Dannie Heineman interests of Belgium, and also linked with the potent Gesfurel...
...customary with outgoing Presidents. Hungarian Artist Philip A. Lazlo de Lombo's suave, briskly painted Coolidge portrait, which now hangs in the state dining room, seemed a probable choice. Other famed Coolidge portraits are by Frank 0. Salisbury, "painter laureate of England," for the New York Genealogical and Biographical Soci ety, Manhattan, and by Ercole Cartotto, adroit Italian. The Cartotto Coolidge is soon to be hung in the Manhattan clubhouse of President Coolidge's fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta...
...grave and dignified little man is M. Léon Pollier, Chairman of La Société Franciase de Sucrerie. Only a short while ago he was Professor of Economic Law at the University of Lille...
...billion francs ($19,500,000). This stupendous swindle was carried on from Paris through branch offices in almost every provincial city and town of consequence in France. During the past year fictional corporations with such vague names as L'Union Française d'Emission and La Société Syndicate Fonciére were organized and floated at the rate of slightly less than one a day. When the crash came some 400 employes of Swindleress Hanau organized themselves into the "Society for the Defense of Honor," protesting that they had believed themselves to be engaged...