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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cuba. Provisional President Carlos Mendieta finished his speech at a naval officers' luncheon at Tiscornia Camp across the bay from Havana and sat down. BAM! A huge hole opened in the wall under a stairway, blew a great wind across the room. A seaman and a Navy paymaster stood directly between Mendieta and the stairway. The blast killed both, scratched Mendieta's left hand and wounded a scattering of Cuban officialdom. Said President Mendieta: "It was a terrible surprise but just one of those things." Another of "those things" Spoke two days later from submachine guns...
...creditors may ultimately be made. Chancellor Hitler, with the simple directness of supreme demagogery, blamed everything in his Volkischer Beobachter upon a Morgan Partner, sandy-haired Seymour Parker Gilbert who was Agent General for Reparations Payments (1924-30) before he received a partner's desk at No. 23 Wall St. "The former Agent General," cried Herr Hitler's mouthpiece, " bears the bulk of responsibility for foreign creditors' disappointments. . . . Germany's declaring a moratorium bespeaks an energy which Gilbert never possessed!" For his part Dr. Schacht, who works, eats and sleeps at the Reichsbank, had an elaborate...
...alleged pledge to support the bank. ¶Day before the House of Morgan became just one more private bank last week, the partners issued their first voluntary statement of condition. Since the Senate Banking & Currency Committee revealed the Morgan secrets last year, the combined assets of No. 23 Wall Street and Drexel & Co.. the Philadelphia branch, have increased $26,000,000 to $344,000,000. Chief assets were $59,000,000 cash, $169,000.000 in Government bonds, $53,000,000 in loans & advances. Deposits were up $33.000,000 to $271,000,000. Net worth, which represents the stake...
Today 555 members of the Class of 1934 forsake the green banks of the Charles to enter the mad scramble for existence in the merciless money-making canyon of Wall Street, in the alphabetic confusion of the capital, in the dry, dusty helds of the Mid West, or in any of the other places where the chances are reported to be fifty to one for sinking relentiessly into the quagmire of failure. For most of these men the days of play, the days when one can follow his own fancy as long as the Committee of Vigilantes at University Hall...
...underwrite the first public issue of International Telephone & Telegraph common stock. New branches jammed its wire system with Stock Exchange commission business. Like all firms, Edward B. Smith floated some astounding flops but it managed to retain a large item of goodwill. Albert Smith died this spring, and Wall Street surmised last week that Joseph R. Swan and his Guaranty associates would have a dominant voice in the new Edward B. Smith & Co., even if they did not hold a dominant financial interest...