Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Northeastern Power Corp.: Carlisle property, serving many a community along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence. Chairman is F. L. Carlisle, President is H. E. Machold, New York State Republican leader. Jacob F. Jr. and Paul Schoellkopf are directors...
Mohawk Hudson Power Corp.: Serving Albany, Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse, many another New York city. Board Chairman is Charles S. Brewer; directorate includes Statistician Roger W. Babson, General Electric's Owen D. Young, also Messrs. Machold and Carlisle...
...utility field was not the only one to feel the urge to merge last week (see p. 52). In New York two large institutions, the Chase National Bank, the National Park Bank, at meetings of their respective boards, agreed to consolidate. Total resources of $1,200,000,000 will make the new company the third largest banking institution in the country, exceeded only by the Guaranty Trust Co., National City Bank. In point of total capital funds, it will be the largest with...
...wife from whom Author Lewisohn has been separated since 1925, charged that the portrait was intended to be of herself. She sued for $200,000 libel. Harper & Bros., publishers of the novel, moved that Mrs. Lewisohn's complaint be dismissed. Last week Justice Peter Schmuck of the New York State Supreme Court, ruling on this motion, said: "Although for the most part the book is the gibberish ego of a selfish sentimentalist, and . . . the feverish exhalations of a perverted and disappointed conceit against an individual in particular and society and law generally, and cannot seriously affect the opinion of rational...
...produced The Bird of Paradise by Richard Walton Tully of Sierra Madre, Cal. In 1912 one Grace A. Fendler sued Producer Morosco and Playwright Tully, charged that the play had been plagiarized from her In Hawaii. Last week she won her case in the New York State Supreme Court. Heavy as was Producer Morosco's lot, Playwright Tully's was worse. The damages awarded against him totaled...