Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cited by the Commission were two such holding companies: Alleghany Corp. controlled by the Van Sweringen interests (Nickel Plate, Erie, Pere Marquette. C. & O.) and Pennroad Corp., controlled under a voting trust by the president and two directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...trustees was to appoint Charles Evans Hughes counsel. To him will come not only the routine problems of passing on the legality of the triumvirate's financing, but the problem of facing the suit brought against Fox last fortnight by the Government, charging violation of the Clayton anti-trust law by its ownership of Loew...
...York Curb listed 1,227,392 preferred shares and 7,477,392 common shares of Blue Ridge Corp., investment trust sponsored by Harrison Williams and by Goldman, Sachs & Co. As the same date is more memorable as opening day for greatest market crash in history, unfortunate has been Blue Ridge's Curb career. In retrospect, indeed, the history both of Blue Ridge and of Shenandoah Corp., companion investment trust formed by the same interests, appears somewhat ironic. In August, Blue Ridge had announced a policy of exchanging its shares for shares of other corporations, had thus indirectly endorsed such...
...Shenandoah. Blue Ridge common went from a high of 29⅝ to a low of 3½. Shenandoah went from 39⅜ to 6⅞. Furthermore, the first of the year was rapidly approaching-a significant period at which the Market break would be clearly reflected in investment trusts' reports of operations. Many a market student anticipated a severe January slump in investment trust securities...
...Besides large holdings in Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Central States Electric and Blue Ridge, Chief Shenandoah investments last fall included: American Tel. & Tel., Commercial Investment Trust, Consolidated Gas of Baltimore, Electric Investors (now merged with Electric Bond & Share), Hydro-Electric Securities Co., Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric , Pacific Lighting, North American...