Word: midland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...syndicate which bought the Telegraph last week is that of Sir William Berry, who controls the Daily Graphic, Sunday Times, and a great bloc of Midland newspapers, and who last year acquired a large interest in the publishing properties of the late Sir Edward Hutton...
...Earl of Oxford and Asquith (then Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith) was "reticent, secretive, reserved" and that he deliberately withheld information from his monarch. On one occasion he wrote to Premier Asquith asking him to tell Reginald McKenna, then First Lord of the Admiralty, now Chairman of the Midland Bank, that it was "his duty to keep His Majesty informed of fleet movements, to say nothing of common courtesy...
...London, Midland & Scottish R. R., Euston to Colwyn...
...more than 500 U. S. corporations last week received and cashed dividend checks totaling more than $500,000,000 as their income for the first quarter of the year. More than 30 companies also declared extra dividends, notably American Safety Razor, Childs (restaurants), Coca-Cola, Pere Marquette R.R., Midland Steel, Humble Oil & Gas, St. Louis & San Francisco ("Frisco") R.R., United Fruit, Singer Sewing Machine. The largest extra dividend-$60 a share-was paid by a relatively obscure concern, Pratt & Whitney, manufacturers of aircraft...
...Some of these crises were panics. "We men of the Congress have prevented such crises; we invented a new financial tool. ... In England last week Reginald M'Kenna, Chairman of the London Joint City and Midland Bank, great institution, and onetime (1915-16) Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain, marveled at our device; suggested that a modification of it be applied to British banking. . . ." The twelve Federal Reserve Banks,* whose charters the Congress last week voted to extend indefinitely beyond 1934, are banks of discount. Member banks-and all national banks must be members of the Federal Reserve...