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...grubby auction hall is the Exchange Salesroom at No. 18 Vesey St., Manhattan. There in one corner is the famed auction block of Adrian H. Muller & Son which for a fee will sell anyone's securities. Both Mr. Muller and his son are dead, and the firm today is run by Miss Helen M. Collins, fortyish and efficient. One afternoon last week Miss Collins held the most spectacular auction in U. S. history...
...that time in a public auction room at No. 18 Vesey St., Manhattan, Adrian H. Muller & Son will sell for J. P. Morgan & Co. the collateral pledged by the Brothers Van Sweringen for loans and accumulated interest now amounting to $50,000,000. Among the securities which the House of Morgan and allied banks took over when the loan fell due last May was stock-control of the holding companies through which the Van Sweringens rule virtually all their vast possessions. On the block will go about 50% of the common stock of Allegheny Corp., representing...
Both brothers, now in their sixties, married but childless, began their careers in their father's red-fronted Great American Tea Co. on Vesey Street, Manhattan. Brother George at 15 was cashier, personally counting by hand every dollar of the daily receipts of what was then a vast chain of 100 tea stores. Brother John, seven years younger, joined the firm at 16. They and their father ran the business until 1917 when the eldest Hartford died. In 1912 they had 400 stores, but that was only a beginning. In that year John & George decided to found a cash...
...heard of or recognized at all. He sits in his bare office in Manhattan's Graybar Building and tends as strictly and shrewdly to A. & P. finances as he did when, as a plump boy of 15, he counted A. & P. money in the cashier's cage on Vesey Street. In his homely way he decided that things were going too fast in the 20s. In 1927, he put his heavy foot down and ordered A. & P. to make no leases for over one year ahead. That policy saved his company millions of dollars in Depression...
...Lockwood '34, T. A. Lupion '34, J. F. McJennett '33, W. J. McTigue '33, and Phineas Tube ocC. From last year's Freshman team come J. A. Fitzpairick '35, D. H. Gleason '35, Robert Haley '35, C. S. Sargent '35, Huntington Thom '35 and W. D. Vesey...