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During the winter and spring he had declined the presidency of a newly founded bank in St. Louis , and had consolidated his holdings in numerous gas companies . The latter transaction had been profitable - and , as always , not only to ...
During the winter and spring he had declined the presidency of a newly founded bank in St. Louis , and had consolidated his holdings in numerous gas companies . The latter transaction had been profitable - and , as always , not only to ...
Page 111
Various diary entries told of advising with C. H. Deere , whose company would have been the largest in a proposed amalgamation of the leading plow manufacturers into the proposed National Plow Company . Charles Deering consulted him ...
Various diary entries told of advising with C. H. Deere , whose company would have been the largest in a proposed amalgamation of the leading plow manufacturers into the proposed National Plow Company . Charles Deering consulted him ...
Page 135
The Knickerbocker Trust Company of New York failed . The Knickerbocker was the city's “ society bank , ” its clientele the most fashionable in town . It had been involved in the efforts of F. Augustus Heinz to corner the copper market ...
The Knickerbocker Trust Company of New York failed . The Knickerbocker was the city's “ society bank , ” its clientele the most fashionable in town . It had been involved in the efforts of F. Augustus Heinz to corner the copper market ...
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| Title | Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes, Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Author | Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Publisher | Holt, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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