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...will be associated with him, two will become members in a new firm. The newly merged firm of Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider, second largest wire house, continued its expansion by acquiring the business and offices of Moyse & Barry, Stock Exchange members who became inactive Jan. 1. Indiana-Nitag. Should a tariff be placed upon petroleum and its products, hard hit would be Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, big importer. Last week Indiana expanded its foreign markets by acquiring a large interest in Germany's N I T A G (Naphtha Industrie und Tankanlagen Aktiengesellschaft) for $1,100,000. Nitag, a distributing...
...Appointed by the President to the Tariff Commission was Democrat Ira N. Ornburn, Connecticut cigarmaker and union labor leader...
...Tennessee proposed making War Hero Alvin C. York a captain. Senator Brookhart of Iowa wanted to knock out the gold standard. To make the purchaser of liquor equally guilty with the seller was the legislative ambition of Senator Sheppard of Texas. Senator Hull of Tennessee wanted to repeal tariff flexibility. Senator La Follette of Wisconsin proposed to appropriate $250,000,000 for direct unemployment relief whereas Senator Wagner of New York called for a two billion dollar bond issue for public works. Senator Kean of New Jersey would turn Muscle Shoals over to Alabama and Tennessee. A bill by Senator...
...California, 18; Michigan, 8; New York, 7. Big losers: Missouri, 6; Iowa, 4; Pennsylvania, 4. Republican headquarters is hard pressed for operating cash. Wet Republicans are withholding their money from a Dry party. Community chests have taken funds that would otherwise go to party politics. Industrial disappointment with the Tariff to bring back good times has frozen much Republican revenue. To bring in enough money to keep national headquarters solvent until the June convention, the committee last week named a special cash-collecting board headed by Philadelphia Banker Jay Cooke...
...dollars. He admitted that Germany had at the present moment a favorable trade balance of about $83,000,000 a month, but it could not last. German exports are bound to fall because of competition from Great Britain and other countries off the gold standard, the raising of new tariff walls, the scarcity of fresh foreign credits. Most of Dr. Melchior's figures were substantiated by U. S. Delegate Walter W. Stewart, board chairman of Case, Pomeroy & Co., U. S. adviser to the Bank of England...