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...specialist in international affairs, Mr. Smith began the practice of law in Boston in 1896. He was chosen one of the organizers of the financial consortium for China and acted as adviser to the Mexican Government on the adjusting of its national debt...
...Solvay company to form the opposition are, of course, not foreigners, but Mr. Weber took the opportunity to dig Son Nichols by quoting a letter of his late father to Armand Solvay in which objection was made to the Solvays' aim to build up a world chemical consortium and have Allied join...
...that the horsy Persian would act thus unless he had potent backing. Whose? The London Press bristled with rumors that representatives of J. P. Morgan & Co., General Motors, Goodyear and Firestone were in Teheran dickering to form a $2,000,000 "Persian-American Corp." Britons heard that this "American consortium" would "buy Persian products for American consumption" and "undertake a general program of industrialization for Persia." In Manhattan a Morgan partner flatly said that he "knew of no basis" for such reports, but by that time the House of Commons was seething over a so-called British ultimatum to Persia...
...extent of over $100,000,000. Mr. Gibson has been interested vitally in improving depositors' courage. While other bankers have held aloof from the efforts of Bank Superintendent Broderick, Mr. Gibson has listened to his problems, given him his aid. Significance of last week's consortium was that the banking fraternity had decided they were all concerned with depositors' courage and that Banker Gibson was on the right track to do something constructive about it. When the banks were ready Superintendent Broderick, already dealing with Mr. Gibson, saw him as the man to head the great operation...
...Wiggin Committee seemed satisfied with trying to arrange what German editors called a "Stillstand Consortium," a formal agreement to leave all present foreign credits untouched in Germany for six months. France as usual objected. She thought three months was long enough, said French law does not permit a six months extension, but since France owns only about 5% of the foreign credits in Germany her objections this time did not carry the weight that they usually do. France finally agreed to a special formula for a three months renewable prolongation...