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...only the smallest vogue, losing money cheerfully in the larger interest of music. They printed modernists, when "nobody" wanted a page of the modernists. In particular they published the .works of the new school of Italian modernist composers. These had been unable to get publication in Italy. Firms like Ricordi and Sozogno limit themselves chiefly to opera publications, where the profits are probable and large, and let these crazy modernist fellows severely alone. But today the Italian modernists are enjoying quite a vogue throughout the world. The head of the Universal Edition of Vienna, which with Breitkopf and Hertal...
...Tracy group stress the desirability of retaining for the Company the services of Mr. Willys, and its plan is endorsed by J. P. Cotton, counsel for the first preferred stock-holders of the bankrupt concern. The Thompson faction is assisted by the investment banking firm of Dillon, Read & Co., Manhattan...
James M. Beck, Solicitor General of the U. S.: "Speaking before the Hall of Gray's Inn, London, I hailed the U. S. Supreme Court as 'a great lighthouse standing firm even when furious storms of discontent lash the national waters.' Lord Justice Adkins, who presided, mentioned the Court's one-hour time limit for counsels' speeches, and said he had known great English advocates who would find an hour insufficient to get within speaking distance of the real point. Much laughter greeted this sally...
...partners of J. P. Morgan & Co. are now: J. P. Morgan, Edward T. Stotesbury, Charles Steele, William H. Porter, Thomas W. Lament, Horatio G. Lloyd, Dwight W. Morrow, Edward R. Stettinius, Thomas Cochran, Junius Spencer Morgan, Jr., Elliot Cowdin Bacon, George Whitney, Thomas S. Gates, Russell C. Leffingwell. The firm holds two " seats " or memberships in the New York Stock Exchange, which stand in the names of J. P. Morgan and his son, Junius S. Morgan, Jr. The number of Morgan partners has always been elastic, and has recently varied from nine to fourteen, so that it cannot be said...
...expected that Mr. Leffingwell's immediate duties in J. P. Morgan & Co. will be in connection with the British payment of her U. S. war debt which the firm will handle as fiscal agent for Great Britain. This work will take years to consummate and unnusual financial ability to direct. Mr. Leffingwell's knowledge of official Washington should greatly assist him in this new task...