Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truce for Germany. This was the recommendation of the London conference three weeks ago; most international bankers have already agreed to it in principle. Dr. Luther wanted a definite statement that foreign banks would not withdraw for six months credits with German banks and industries outstanding on July 13. Wall Street quibbled...
German delegates had insistently repeated that the long term loan was vital. France had the ready cash for the loan, but immediately the conference was faced with the stone wall of French political demands which it might take weeks to scale. By that time it would probably be too late. Thus the conference was not 24 hours old before observers realized that the two alternatives were rapidly getting down...
...Morgan steamed into Southampton water last week on his yacht Corsair after a record Atlantic crossing (7 days, 7 hr.), the Corsair's second this year. He laughed when asked if he had hurried to participate in the London Conference, said he would spend a few weeks at Wall Hall, his Hertfordshire estate, shoot a few grouse in Scotland. In 1926 a Morgan loan helped save the French franc from collapsing. In 1925 a Morgan bond issue of $100,000,000 helped pull Italy from grave financial difficulties. Four months ago a $60,000,000 international loan, engineered...
...rights to a picture called Whom the Gods Would Destroy for $4,250, sold shares in it for $42.50 to 99 Wall Street men. He used their backing when he was head of World Film Corp. which had an elephant for a trademark. When the stockholders in World Film, conservative bankers who never understood the Selznick to make pictures starring Clara Kimball Young...
...bushy-mustached, fond of sports. With hat turned far down in front he drives to sporting events in a strange motor wagonette, scrambles onto its roof for a good view. He likes to go through factories notebook in hand. Congoleum-Nairn is thought of as a Morgan company in Wall Street but the connection is not apparent, may exist only in private stockholdings...