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Continuing in wrathful vein, Lord Beaverbrook took as his text the reputed failure of the London firm of Furness Withy & Co. to purchase the White Star Line for more than ?6,000,000 because the transfer of such a sum to the White Star Line's U. S. owners might have depressed the pound in relation to the dollar. Pointing the moral, Lord Beaverbrook concluded: "The idea of enforcing the return to the gold standard was that we should be able to buy on equal terms in America...
...months; could declare a 50% stock dividend and still maintain $7 dividends. William Crapo Durant, deposed G. M. founder, gleaned some $12,000,000 from recent toying with its stock. Its stock passed $200 a share. Thomas Cochran, Morgan partner, was almost incredibly reported to have broken his firm's silence by saying it "should and will" sell 100 points higher...
...Tuchun Feng Yu-Hsiang, former War Lord of Peking. Would not Super-Tuchun Wu, cried the delegates, add luster to his reputation as the exponent of China's former aristocracy by restoring a clinking golden aura to "The Son of Heaven?" Super-Tuchun Wu would not. Courteous but firm, he sent the delegates packing, declared that to accede to their request would lay him open to the charge of attempting to restore the Empire. . . . Meanwhile, at Tientsin, Henry P'u-yi and his consort, Elizabeth, continued their placid, adequate existence. He often pounds a type- writer-often reads...
Archibald B. Roosevelt, the youngest living son of the late 26th President of the U. S., is 32. This week he becomes a partner of the Manhattan Stock Exchange firm of Roosevelt & Son, which his great-great-grandfather started 129 years ago. His grandfater, Theodore, I, was most active with this old firm. But the President never worked...
Separated. Paul D. Cravath, 65, distinguished Manhattan corporation lawyer of the firm of Cravath, Henderson, & de Gersdorff whose clients include Thomas F. Ryan, Kuhn Loeb & Co., Speyer & Co.; and Agnes (Huntington) Cravath, onetime opera singer; after 32 years of married life.* In the actual language of the press of the '90s, he, "a devoted lover, a strapping fellow with sweeping mustachios of dark brown" impatiently climbed a 20-ft. ladder of the steamer Teutonic to meet his lady...