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Motor Trust. With the Cutten-Blair & Co. Petroleum trust definitely established, rumors last week centered about the formation of an automotive trust in which the names of Mr. Cutten and a "progressive Wall St. banking house" were freely coupled. Two other great names were added?Fred J. Fisher, Vice-President of General Motors and Walter P. Chrysler, head of Chrysler Motors. This quartet was credited with the planning of an Investment Trust with a capital of from $500,000,000 to $700,000,000, formed to operate exclusively in automobile securities. Upon this automotive rumor was built an even grander...
These two able-bodied men have clashed in what, if ever there was one, is a Battle of the Century. In the first two weeks, it has involved tycoons from coast to coast, quiet old estates, many a small John Stockholder, thousands of employes, Wall Street, La Salle Street, and a department of the U. S. Government...
Another room is devoted to reptiles and ancient fish. A collection of marine reptiles occupies one wall of this room, and includes in particular reptiles which were alive at the time when this form of marine life dominated...
...career, Promoter Rickard had surrounded himself with a powerful corporation, mainly to insure financial security. It seemed likely that whoever was elected president of this, would inherit the responsibilities, if not necessarily the talents, of Tex Richard. A much discussed candidate was Vice President William F. Carey, Wall Street contracting engineer, builder of the new Manhattan and Boston Madison Square Gardens, onetime Rickard Partner in Paraguayan cattle-ranchholdings. Jack Dempsey refused to consider it officially; before any announcement had been made by the Garden Corporation, William F. Carey entrained with Prizefighter Dempsey for Boston and persuaded Jack Sharkey...
...Practically, Wall Street estimated that previous to the Rockefeller letter, only 17% of Standard Oil of Indiana stock was in Rockefeller hands, while Colonel Stewart and allies controlled...