Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clarence Dillon, Wall Street banker who flings a swift & broad flail in his financial harvestings,* struck twice against litigation, according to two complaints lodged last week in Manhattan against him. One was that he had created an asbestos trust, the other that he had not given a _go-be-tween sufficient commission in an oil deal...
...live and work as to justify the trust and confidence reposed in the Engineering Profession...
Loree Merger. The I. C. C. suddenly ordered Leonor Fresnel Loree to explain why his railroad mergers proceedings in the Southwest were not a violation of the Clayton Anti-Trust law. Mr. Loree had had his Kansas City Southern R. R. buy control of the larger Missouri-Kansas-Texas ("Katy") and the St. Louis Southwestern ("Cotton Belt"), presuming that he was protected by the 1920 Transportation Act of Congress which encouraged the railroads to unify regional systems. Railroad men realized that the I. C. C.'s present gesture towards Mergerer Loree may be an effort to rub away...
...Cohan first night has often made a noticeable sputter on Broadway. Hence it annoyed the author of Whispering Friends to find that the critics in whom he had put trust had neglected his play and that the minor critics, sent in their stead, had abused it. The annoyance felt by Author Cohan was expressed in a series of confidently derisive advertisements which he caused to be printed in Manhattan newssheets above his own signature...
Twenty crimson-dyed wooden kegs of Siberian gold bars (U. S. casks for gold export are white) stood idle four days of last week in the vaults of the Chase National Bank and the Equitable Trust Co., Manhattan, eating up $700 a day interest at the expense of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, which had exported gold to the U. S. for the first time. Standing orders have outlawed Russian gold since 1920. [Only last month Secretary Frank B. Kellogg had ruled against cashing of Russian Soviet railroad bond coupons by the Chase National (TIME...