Untermyer Blasts Big Corporations Over Housing Loans
Samuel Untermyer accuses major life insurers savings banks and investment firms of withholding loans on improved real estate and conspiring to raise building costs. He urges an immediate official investigation revealing the ownership and risk dynamics behind mortgages bonds and stock holdings as of 1918 1919.
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Nathan Hirsch
Samuel Untermyer
Unterthyer
New York Life Insurance Company
Hirsch
General Welfare Committee
Board of Aldermen
William T. Collins
City Hall
Mr. Untermyer
Frank Moss
Charlen C. Lockwood
State Legislative Committee
Untermyers
Otto
Eidlitz
Atterbury
Russell Sage Foundation
Youngstown
Ohio
Untermyer
New York Life Insurance Companies
N.Y. Life Tos. Co
Sequitable Lifac
Mutual
Life
Metropolitan Life
New York State
New York
Guardian Life
Rcarity Mutual
Continental Fire Insurance Company of
Home Insurance Company
Ong
Plan for Atlantic Cable Link Between United States and South America
Western Union and Western Telegraph Company of Great Britain announce a 3200 mile cable project connecting Miami to Belem Brazil with Barbados as a hub. The plan routes along Cuba Haiti and between Puerto Rico and the South American coast, aiming for six months completion. A formal contract is pending and Newcomb Carlton outlines non discriminatory.future joint operations. Also New York American Legion Branch is incorporated with notable veterans on the board.
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United States
Brazil
South America
Western Union Telegraph Company
Western Telegraph Company
Great Britain
Miami
Fla
Belem
Barbados
Western Union
Rio Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Eastern Seaboard
Newcomb Carlton
Roate
Carlton
Florida
Cuba
Americas
Aleardy
America
Miami-Belem
Haiti
Porto Rico
Directon Union
Overseas Corporation
Boomer Leases Philadelphia Hotel Bellevue Stradford
L M Boomer, owner of the Hotel McAlpin and the Waldorf Astoria, has long term leased the Hotel Bellevue Stratford in Philadelphia and will manage it. General T Coleman du Pont, a major hotel proprietor, is associated with the venture. The deal reportedly includes a renewal right and about a 1 million dollar investment.
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Eg M. Boomer
McAlpin
Waldorf Astoria
Bellevue-Stratford
Philadelphia
Boomer
Sali
General T. Coleman du Pont
United States
Waldorf-Astoria
J. P. A. O'Conor
Olacee Hotel Enterprises
Boomers
George C. Boldt
Mrr
John McE. Bowman
Commodore
Biltmore
Gbhoree C. Boldt
Broad and
Walnut Street
Bellevue
Stratford
Sound ranging service tracks enemy guns by photo
Princeton professor Augustus Trowbridge described a sound ranging system that locates German artillery by recording sound arrival with central stations in ruined towns. The automatically generated photographic charts pinpointed position and calibre within a minute, enabling rapid telephoned updates to African batteries.
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Princeton
N. J
Augusstus Trowbridge
Physics Department
Engineers Corps
Trowbridge
Ont
Men to Join Boy Scouts Drive Aids Growth at Luncheon
Business leaders and corporate delegates pledged over 100000 adult Boy Scout members at a Bankers Club luncheon marking the end of preliminary activities before the drive opens at the Hippodrome next Sunday night. A B Leach presided with speakers including William Howards and former Secretary of the Treasury William G McAdoo. Mrs Paul Foerster chaired the Women’s Committee. McAdoo praised the movement as an education project preventing bomb outrages while Big Bill Edwards cited the Scouts war record. James E West led a team captains meeting at the Custom House stressing training to curb Bolshevism.
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Bankers’ Club
Hippodrome
A. B. Leach
William Howards
Secretary of the Treasury
William G. McAdoo
Paul Foerster
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J. Wesley Kincaid
Hamilton Fish, Jr
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