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...split between the hard and soft money men was dramatized a day later when the American Statistical Association came to elect officers. The nominating committee headed by Professor Irving Fisher named eight vice presidents to head inquiries on various economic subjects. One of those named was Professor James Harvey Rogers, to study "facts and methods bearing on economics and economic theory." Hard money men who "hate the guts" of soft money theories felt it was time to take a hand. They nominated Professor Harold L. Reed, hard money man from Cornell, in opposition. The vote: 53 (hard money...
...unnamed. The syndicate includes J. Pierpont Morgan, Gerard Barnes Lambert, Edward H. Harkness, George Fisher Baker, Frederick William Vanderbilt and Harold's brother William Kissam Vanderbilt. The syndicate undertook to raise $400,000, which is $200,000 less than Enterprise cost. Proposed $40,000 shares were split down to $4,000 units, but, even so, subscriptions were slow. To avoid further delay members of the syndicate underwrote the whole sum, gave the word to the Herreshoff Yard in Bristol, R. I. to go ahead...
...would he have been greatly startled when his second cousin three times removed became the 32nd President of the U. S. But what would have given him a severe shock would have been the signing by any Roosevelt in the White House of a law which would split his venerable firm three ways...
Millions of Germans scanned anxiously the States list of grounds for sterilization: 1) hereditary deafness; 2) hereditary alcoholism; 3) hereditary blindness; 4) St. Vitus' dance; 5) epilepsy 6) manic-depressive insanity; 7) congenital idiocy; 8) schizophrenia (split personality) and 9) severe physical deformity...
...news last October when Atlas Tack Corp. announced that it had started to make bottle-caps. It was news when Kermit Roosevelt and John Sargent, the insurance partner of James Roosevelt, took seats on the Tack board. It was news last week when the Tack directors voted to split the stock three-for-one. Next day Tack stock tumbled from $34.75 a share to $21. Rumors flew thick that the Tack pool had been punctured. It had-but not the way Wall Street suspected. The New York State Attorney General curtly announced that he had been investigating Tack...