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Some potent Britons evidently feared last week that Manhattan might get the bank. "Will Wall Street Swallow Europe?" editorialed Viscount Rothermere. publisher of one of the world's largest newspapers. London's Daily Mail. Over his own signature Tycoon Rothermere warned, "Wall Street has become another world power, with more authority than the League of Nations, with more subtlety than Bolshevism...
...five seconds!" He stepped to the window. The courtyard below was filled with other soldiers drilling in the hot sun. To throw the grenade out would kill a dozen men. Gritting his teeth. Lieutenant Jovice held on with both hands, keeping the bomb between his body and the wall. The fifth second passed, then a white flash, a crashing explosion. Lieutenant Jovice slumped to the floor, his right arm torn off at the shoulder. No one else was injured...
Tall, calm, quiet Waddill Catchings, president of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., is widely recognized as a Coming Man of Wall Street. He graduated from Harvard (1901), took a law degree (1904), entered business in 1911 with the Central Foundry Co. From 1915 to 1917 he was a Morgan Man (export division), then spent a year as president of Schloss Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. on the Executive Committee of which he still serves. He has written on many an industrial topic, has been recently engaged with William T. Foster on a study of the Reserve Board v. Wall Street situation. Whenever...
John Pierpont Morgan, wearied by the strain of the Reparations meeting (TIME, Feb. n et seq.), sailed for a six-month rest at "Wall Hall," his English home in Hertfordshire...
...rent which Commercial National Bank & Trust Co. of New York will soon be paying. Last week this bank contracted to pay rent of almost $500,000 a year for 42 years. Its landlord will be unique Henry L. Doherty; its premises, the first five floors at No. 60 Wall Street (Cities Service Co. building, now being remodeled). Commercial National has signed a 21-year lease with an option for a 21-year renewal. During a prospective 42-year occupancy it will pay $20,000,000 in rent...