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...once more. He entered the Manhattan law firm which is now Stetson, Jennings, Russell and Davis. By that there hangs a tale. This firm acts as counselor to J. P. Morgan & Co. On this keynote do the anti-Davisites of the present Presidential campaign sing their chorus of "Wall Street and Big Business." Early in the campaign one of his supporters wrote to Mr. Davis suggesting that he drop his corporation connections for political reasons. Mr. Davis replied...
With the Chinese Government willing, but unable, to hand over the Legation, the Soviet Government anxious to take possession of the building and the Diplomats hostile to both parties, an obstacle was created proportionate to the size of the Great Wall...
...Upon the wall supporting the terrace below the Secretariat of the League of Nations is a tablet: "To the Memory of Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, Founder of the League of Nations. The Town of Geneva...
Public utilities and railroads are in high feather; their stocks are rising steadily in Wall Street; they are planning elaborate and significant mergers. But industrial concerns are very much in the trough of depression, as conditions in the basic and typical steel and iron industry go to show...
Continued rumors in Wall Street and elsewhere concerning the Van Sweringen brothers and their plans for consolidating railroads were confirmed when it was announced that their leading road, the "Nickel Plate" (the New York, Chicago & St. Louis), had virtually acquired control of the Erie. The growth of the new Van Sweringen system, which has not yet reached its end, began by important consolidations under the Nickel Plate. Last February, Nickel Plate assumed control of the Chesapeake & Ohio. In the late Winter and Spring, the heavy buying of Erie on the Stock Exchange occasioned much comment. Evidently much...