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...growth is intimately connected with the growth of electrical public utilities in this country, for these utilities were badly in need of money for development. The General Electric, through its subsidiary, the Electric Bond and Share Co., helped to finance them and in return took a large measure of their business. This fact incidentally accounts in large part for the present investigation; because of this aid in financing public utilities, the General Electric is indirectly a large security holder in many companies...
...agreement did not commit the U. S. to enforce the Experts' Plan if Germany should default, that it had nothing of the nature of a treaty, that it was merely an executive agreement whereby the U. S. is to receive money owing from Germany by getting a share of the reparations payment...
...following, an exchange of letters between Baptist and Bishop was published less conspicuously. The Baptist wrote with infinite tact on the subject of Church union, suggesting that those who stood outside the Episcopalian fold should be given a share in its governance. He concluded...
...making this gift, the undersigned desires to express the hope that, if not now, in the near future it may be deemed right and fitting to invite representatives of Protestant communions other than the Protestant Episcopal Church to a share of the control and direction of the erection, maintenance and management of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; and neither the execution of this agreement by the undersigned nor the making of the donation aforesaid by the undersigned shall be considered or construed to prevent the amendment of the charter, constitution or statutes of the Cathedral of St. John...
...Thomas W. Lawson, 67, frenzied financier, called "the world's greatest speculator"; in Boston, after an operation for diabetes. When 17, he ran away from school, in five years had made-and lost-$60,000 in speculation. He bought copper stock for 75c, sold it for $60 a share, won a new sobriquet, "the Copper King." Died. Oliver Heavisicle, 70, last year awarded a gold medal by the Society of Electrical Engineers (London), as "the greatest living authority on electricity"; in Devonshire, England, of a fall from a ladder. He was obscure, frequently destitute, a recluse in his cottage...