Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I and others are advocating a national Indian holiday, to occur each year, preferably in the month of October at the time of the Harvest moon or during our glorious Indian summer. I notice whenever you mention the Indians that you are uniformly fair and impartial and I trust that your great newsmagazine will see fit to say a word in favor of this program. A people from whom we obtained a continent and who furnished 30,000 young men in the World War, it seems to me, are highly deserving of an annual holiday...
...long time since trust-busting was a front-page activity of the U. S. Government. Last week, however, three potent U. S. corporations found themselves involved in anti-trust proceedings. Attorney General William De Witt Mitchell filed suit against Warner Brothers and William Fox and announced a general investigation of the pooled patents held by Radio Corp. of America. This announcement closely followed a ruling in which the U. S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware, declared that Radio Corp. was following monopolistic practices in its licensing policy...
Transgression. Many a citizen wondered whether the Lobby Committee had not transgressed even senatorial privilege when it examined another potent Eastern banker, Fred I. Kent, director of Bankers Trust Co. of Manhattan. In a public speech Banker Kent had blamed the Senate and the Democratic-Insurgent Republican coalition for the stockmarket break. The four members of that coalition on the Lobby Committee (Caraway, Walsh, Elaine. Borah) made for Banker Kent in rough-and-tumble fashion...
Cleveland Bank. Seventy-eight directors of Central United National Bank of Cleveland met for the first time last week, thereby formally completing the merger of Central National Bank and United Banking & Trust Co. Resources of the institution come to over $160,000,000, making it the largest national bank in Ohio...
Died. Daniel Frederick Appel, 72, old-time insuranceman, president of New England Mutual Life Insurance Co., director of Old Colony Trust Co.; in Boston; after an illness of several weeks...