Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intends to list his specimens not only on the day in which they shine in all their glory, but in addition, on the day before, so that the followers of the Vagabond may prepare themselves a day in advance. And so he will start off and place his trust in the following landmarks...
...because Lord Talbot had viewed the old let ters as a peculiarly private account of his great-great-grandfather's charms and indiscretions rather than as an important literary discovery. Successful where other collectors had failed, Colonel Isham took the suitcase to the safe-deposit vaults of the Guaranty Trust Co. where, in an ivory twilight that smelled of oil and steel, he showed all his treasure to hungry newsgatherers...
Married. Louise Mitchell, youngest daughter of Banker John J. Mitchell (Illinois Merchants Trust Co.), to one John Payne Kellogg; at Lake Geneva, near Chicago. The ceremony was performed in what was the Ceylonese exhibition room at the Chicago World's Fair...
...hydro-electric establishments at Niagara Falls, at Conowingo (now building by Philadelphia Electric) and on the St. Lawrence River near Ogdensburg, N. Y. (planned by General Electric). Although physical properties of these companies will be as one, their financial fabric cannot be closely knit under present interpretations of anti-trust laws. Anticipating that Congress will discuss such power mergers, interested companies are putting into motion a vast machinery to explain to Congress and to the voters the powerman's attitude...
Lucas Kennedy Drinkwater and many another. There were faint murmurs from malcontents that the merger smacked of trust making, "an attempt to publish all the books in the world"-as George Henry Doran once said he would like to do. To these murmurs Harry Hansen, literary critic of the New York World, replied: "So far as controlling writing-that is impossible ... no one can get a stranglehold on brains. The products of writing men crop up in the most unexpected places, and every now and then a wholly unknown and obscure firm makes a ten-strike with a newcomer...