Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shrewd readers of Dr. Broome's words realized that it was not right of the Hearst press to perceive in his tempered statements a sweeping denunciation of Power Trust (public utilities) propaganda. So far Dr. Broome has merely decried propaganda in the school, has refrained from stating whether there was any. In Atlanta, in June, when the National Education Association (known to all educators as N. E. A.), holds its annual conference Dr. Broome will speak more exactly...
Bank Mergers. Fast-growing, the Manufacturer's Trust Co., 139 Broadway, last week absorbed two other Manhattan banks, became fifth largest of New York trust companies, acquired position among the ten largest U. S. financial institutions. The banks merged were Interstate Trust Co., formed in 1926 by onetime (1923-26) Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey and State Bank and Trust Co., headed by Harold G. Richard. Resources of the combined banks...
...exception, of course, was the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. From Moscow had issued orders for war with the Swedish Match Trust in the world's markets. And following the orders came inspired reports that the U.S.S.R. had enlisted both the Japanese trust and the Chinese syndicates as allies. And following the propaganda came Russian matches, in boxes, in crates, in carloads, flooding the markets of Europe...
Viewing these warlike moves, fearing lest some might think his company endangered, Matchmaker Kreuger last week spoke sharply, scornfully. Said he, through the Swedish International Press Bureau: "The Japanese Trust is our good friend. The Chinese syndicates do not exist. Russian matches are not good enough to compete with us in European markets...
Dawes-Banks. Two Chicago banks-Central Trust Co. and Bank of America, -last week merged to create a $161,000,000 bank, to be chairmaned by U. S. Vice President Charles G. Dawes...