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Died. Baron Bruno Schroder, 73, for 30 years senior partner in the potent, old (1804) London banking house of J. Henry Schroder & Co., in which he represented the third generation: at Englefield Green, Surrey, England...
...flying game. But in 1937 Motorman Cord sold out his Cord Corp. holdings. About a quarter of them went to his broad-shouldered, boom-voiced No. 1 man, Lucius Bass Manning, already a large stockholder. The rest went to a syndicate headed by British Bankers J. Henry Schroder & Co., and to young, up-&-coming Public Utilitarian Victor Emanuel's investment house, Emanuel & Co. (in which he is now only a "limited partner...
While Lou Manning, largest single stockholder and vice chairman of the ATCO board ($30,000 and up a year), was rusticating in California, fast-moving Emanuel got a line on the 320,000 shares of ATCO owned by the London Schroder interests. These he placed with two friendly interests: Lehman Bros, and General American Transportation Corp., which was fat with funds from building and leasing railroad rolling stock and seeking new markets in aviation...
...probably trifling-was kept a military secret) reached Helsinki. Prince Aage of Denmark, who once fought with the French Foreign Legion, volunteered, as did his brother-in-law, Prince Rene of Bourbon-Parma. Two other volunteers were Prince Ferdinand Andreas of Liechtenstein and Sweden's tennis champion, Karl Schroder. Aland Island Novelist Sally Salminen (Katrina) returned to Helsinki from abroad and offered her services to the Finnish Government...
Meanwhile, Schroder & Co. had helped to form a company named Compensation Brokers, Ltd., which gave Germany strategic raw materials on the cuff. Germany's resultant debt served as an argument to push such German exports as potash in order to increase Germany's ability to pay. Last year, however, was a poor year: Schroder & Co. reportedly sold only $20,000,000 worth of the German Syndicate's potash...