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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed for other things than quick and accurate execution of customers' orders. Some of its partners' cultural adventures are as well-known as their business deals. Last week dapper Rowland Stebbins, Broadway's most successful stage "angel" for several seasons, announced he would put a stake back in Wall Street, become a special partner in deCoppet & Doremus,* his old firm. When he retired in 1929 to produce plays, Rowland Stebbins had been with the firm 23 years, twelve as a general partner. Before that he was an engineer until his cousin, the late Edward J. deCop-pet, offered...
Enraged by this generality, El Pals of Montevideo flayed the Wall Street tendency "to group all South American Nations together as defaulters," argued that if even Banker Kahn did not appreciate the "heroic sacrifices" made by the Uruguayan people to meet interest and sinking fund charges on their bonds, Uruguay might as well declare a moratorium...
Tired of captivity, Tusko broke out of his chains, butted down one wall of his barn, wandered outside. There he amused himself by tearing a door from the barn, tossing it around, while Owners O'Grady & Gray telephoned for police. Ten police sharpshooters went to the scene, hesitated to shoot because of the crowd. Amateur marksmen had to be restrained. Mayor George Baker forbade an execution, but ordered a machine gun squad to stand guard while steel cables were fashioned into nooses. Hay was spread over the nooses, the cable ends fastened to trucks. Tusko reached...
...their own company and four and four-tenths shares of Grigsby-Grunow stock for each share held. At current prices of about $1 a share for .Grigsby-Grunow, Columbia's 82,524 shares will thus bring some $363,000. House Changes. Year's end is house-cleaning time in Wall Street. Partners come and go, firms merge, dissolve, start up. Most notable change of last week was Kidder, Peabody & Co.'s absorption of old Kissel, Kinnicutt & Co. Formed 66 years ago in Boston, Kidder, Peabody was long famed as a conservative New England banking house and distributor of American Telephone...
Last week the following were news: Lloyd Waddell Smith, 61, resigned as board chairman of Chase Harris Forbes Corp. to the surprise of Wall Street. Admitted to the bar after graduation from Harvard Law School he never practiced but entered the old Chicago firm of N. W. Harris & Co. in 1899. He stayed on after the company became Harris, Forbes & Co. in 1911. He was made board chairman in 1923, held the same position after Harris, Forbes was consolidated with Chase Securities Corp. last year. Many a farmer boy has become a Manhattan banker. Banker Smith will reverse the process...