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...Allan Anderson Aitken, 42, younger brother of Lord Beaverbrook (William Maxwell Aitken, 53) was elected president of Price Brothers & Co. Ltd., 115-year-old Canadian newsprint and pulp firm, succeeding Lieut.-Colonel John Herbert Price, grandson of Founder William Price. Mr. Price was made operating vice president. He resigned from, the directorate, making way for Lord Beaverbrook. These and other changes were thought to mark assumption of the firm's management if not stock-control by Lord Beaverbrook. Significant were Lord Beaverbrook's statements that no mergers or combines were in the offing, that "Price Brothers will...
...name connected with it." He paid his part of the European trip's expenses with $3,000 in cash. The junket's finances, he understood, were handled by Rodman Wanamaker (dead) and State Senator Bernard L. Downing (dead). The Mayor was even unaware, he said, that J. Allan Smith had paid for the $3,000 overdraft...
...inoperative, when a company competing for the franchise had promised to operate more buses at a lower fare and posted a substantial guarantee? Why did the Mayor buy securities in Interstate Trust Co., later used in an abortive attempt to finance Equitable? How did it happen that one J. Allan Smith, Eqidtable's New York agent, bought Mayor Walker a $10,000 letter of credit (later extended by $3,000) when the Mayor went abroad in 1927, having just signed the franchise...
...Allan Smith's was not the only name the Mayor failed to recall. He remembered Frank R. Fageol, the Kent, Ohio bus builder who was a potent Equitable backer. But he did not remember Mr. Fageol's Vice President Charles B. Rose (now president of America-La France & Foam-ite Corp.) or President William O'Neil of General Tire & Rubber Co., both of whom contributed heavily to Equitable's $282,000 promotion fund. Two weeks before, Mr. O'Neil had testified that he and most of the Equitable promoters had joined the dapper Mayor...
...company. Blamed in the petition were the Depression and "a change in the public's taste," also the fact that because of ill health and advancing age Mrs. MacDougall has not been able to supervise the restaurants personally. Not affected is the coffee business, handled by her son Allan MacDougall who, together with Irving Trust Co., was named receiver last week for his mother's four embarrassed companies...