Word: trusts
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Born in 1822, Mr. Stewart went into engineering, clerked on New York's education board, was an insurance actuary and in 1853 founded the U. S. Trust Co. President Lincoln appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in 1864. Princeton (then College of New Jersey) secured him as a trustee four years later. In October, 1910, when Woodrow Wilson resigned his presidential chair at Princeton to become Governor of New Jersey, Mr. Stewart as senior trustee was called upon to serve as president pro tempore until the inauguration of Dr. Hibben in January, 1912. Known as Wall Street's oldest...
...glee overlooks two things. The first and most obvious is that La Follette, Johnson, and Borah have agreed to no tacit truce as the eastern democrats seem to have done. And the several western Democrats led by Walsh, will undoubtedly join the Insurgents in an assault on the aluminum trust and an effort at a definite farm relief bill...
...never trust to Cambridge fate...
National Food Products. In Manhattan the Government filed in the Federal District Court a similar anti-trust suit against the National Food Products Corp., whose proposed expansions were so exuberantly proclaimed the week before (TIME, Feb. 15). The petition claimed that the Government has the right of preventive action under Par. 2, Sec. 7 of the Clayton Act, which reads...
Answer: The bankers deny any plans of consolidation; insist the corporation is purely an investment trust and legal...