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...interloping foreigners. The crash of Hatry shares has been estimated to involve a $30,000,000 loss. Members of the Committee were said to have discovered that Hatry had obtained a loan of over $1,000,000 by depositing as collateral fictitious bearer script certificates of City of Wakefield 4½% stock. Four Hatry group companies are now going through liquidation: General Securities Ltd., of which the Marquis of Winchester is chairman; the Austin Friars Trust, Ltd., Dundee Trust, and Oak Investment Corp., Ltd. Also under strictest Stock Exchange Committee investigation were Associated Automatic Machines Corp.; Drapery Trust; Retail Trade...
...President is George Harrison Prince, head of First National of St. Paul, native of Amherst, Mass., but acquainted with northwestern banking from the ground up. Now 68, he has spent 50 years of his life in the small and large banks of Minnesota. Vice President is Lyman Wakefield, head of First National of Minneapolis. The list of directors, incomplete last week, is to include the presidents of seven railroads. Chairman of the Board is Clive T. Jaffray, President of the SooLine (previously president of the First National of Minneapolis). Other railroad presidents already on the board are Ralph Budd, head...
...Wakefield has long been known as the president's birthplace; John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has just purchased 267 acres of the estate, on which the old house will be reproduced at a cost of about half a million dollars. When it is completed, together with the Strothers Farm, which it is hoped to have rebuilt, and with Mount Vernon, there will be three important shrines of the nation's hero...
David Guarnaccia of Wakefield who won the Second Marshal's post, prepared at Wakefield High School. He also is an outstanding football and track athlete. His play as a running mate of French in the last Yale game resulted in the two Crimson touchdowns...
There is an excellent original drawing by R. C. Lucas of the "Meeting of Thornhill and Olivia" to illustrate "The Vicar of Wakefield," and also a Bollandson drawing for the Vicar of Wakefield. The earliest French translation of "The Deserted Village" and the earliest Dutch translation of "The Vicar of Wakefield" are also of interest...