Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courage. Alfred Emanuel Smith had learned to despise William Randolph Hearst. In 1919, after Smith had striven to better New York City's milk supply and been balked by a Republican legislature, Hearst's press had viciously accused Smith of being in league with the milk trust, of starving New York's babies. Smith had answered, defied, publicly tongue-lashed Hearst, with Irish violence. Now, Hearst had forgotten, but Smith had not forgotten. To Tammany's coalition proposal, Smith said: "The answer...
Commentators guessed that Socialist Shaw would be the unhappiest of men in the state of society which he envisions. Everyone knows that he haggles and drives the sharpest of bargains whenever he sells a manuscript. He exploits his unique gifts far more avariciously than a Capitalistic Trust exploits any monopoly. At present Pen Man Shaw can and does loll in luxury upon his royalties, enjoying profits of a nature which he delights to describe as "unjust and illogical...
After 51 years of service as a University dormitory Beck Hall and the traditions connected with it, are again threatened with destruction. It has been purchased by the Beck Hall Trust, of which G. P. Davis '14 is the trustee. Plans for the future of the building and the land on which it rests remain doubtful, but it is possible that it may be torn down to give place to a new structure to be built on the Beck Hall lot and the property abutting it on the east. The transaction has just been brought to a close...
...order that it might be retained by the University as a student lodging house, and in order that its Harvard traditions might not be destroyed. Upon his death in the summer of 1926, the executors, in order to settle his estate, announced Beck Hall for sale. The present trust has purchased it "purely for business purposes," said Trustee Davis in a statement to the CRIMSON yesterday...
...Immediately upon the announcements, demand developed in Manhattan for stocks of the Chase National Bank, which owns the Chase Securities Corp. The bank is considering the issuing of new stock carrying unusual privileges. Simultaneously the price of Guaranty Trust shares rose. And that gave face to a rumor, unsupported, that the two banks might merge...