Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Symphony, threatened some weeks ago (TIME, July 25) by the musicians' demand for pay increase, announced that three citizens-Chairman John J. Mitchell of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co., George Lytton and Mrs. Kellog Fairbank-have given the $30,000 symphony fund, of which each musician will receive $10 weekly. Twenty-eight subscription concerts were announced for Fridays and Saturdays, 12 for Tuesday matinees, 16 popular concerts, 12 children's. Conductor Frederick Stock is in command; Maurice Rave, guest conductor...
...York Evening Graphic, juicy gum-chewers' sheetlet, recently offered $50,000 in a cinema title contest. Certain aspects of the replies prompted them to demand an inquiry. Chief Assistant U. S District Attorney G. J. Mintzer inquired; unearthed a "puzzle trust...
Approximately $25,000 is constantly before the public as various prize and puzzle baits. To collect this wealth, the "puzzle trust" operates an information system, publishes a paper (for professionals) filled with inside facts, percentages, tips, systems, devices. To win the Graphic contest, they narrowed 6,000 possible titles down to four score. From these 80, their clients could make their various combinatioons; could submit them through the 50-odd names of "friends" which form a part of their professional equipment...
Meeting. Heads of German, French, British and Belgian chemical industries agreed last week at a conference in Paris to consolidate their companies to form a "billion-dollar European chemical trust...
...described as "a wheel-horse."* Busy-body reporters trying to color his personality, inquired: "What is you favorite form of exercise?" The reply: "None. I tell you I'm the damnedest, most uninteresting man you ever met!" He is also, however, a onetime President of the New York Trust Co. When the Merchants' Trust was closed in 1905, he, as receiver, paid back every depositor with interest in four months. He served on the New York City Board of Education, because, like his classmate & good friend, President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale, he had long been identified...