Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed loan to Germany. "Part of the plan contemplated that a considerable loan should at once be made to Germany for immediate pressing needs, including the financing of a bank. I trust that private American capital will be willing to participate in advancing this loan...
...Ford's bid is so low it would almost certainly be rejected except for the tremendous prestige of the bidder. ("Trust Ford" is the sum of favorable arguments...
...will fight tooth and nail against the oil interests that are seeking to grab the world, until he finally gets control of the major portion of the world's oil production or else exploits it advantageously for himself in a trust in which his fellow members are Rockefeller, Rothschild, Sinclair, Urquhart, Kemal Pasha and the Soviet Governments of Baku and Batum...
President Agusto B. Leguia, Peru's malevolent despot, complained to U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes that a bold, bad bunch of bankers, operating under the name of the Guaranty Trust Co. of Manhattan had been openly discouraging American loans to Peru...
...Once, when investigated, he said that if he had any interest in the Guaranty Trust Co., it was so small he had forgotten it. His small holding was in excess of $700,000. ¶ Mr. Baker once bought control of Chase Bank with a view to amalgamating it with his own. But the Chase Bank prospered so mightily he never effected the merger. ¶The First National is still most humbly furnished, but its dividends are scarcely ever less than 60 per cent on $10,000,000. ¶ Mr. Baker has gone in very little for public charity. Cornell...