Wall Street faces a looming banker battle over deposits
The Aldrich program targets J. P. Morgan & Co. with three aims to separate deposit and investment banking. It would bar private banks from taking deposits, eliminate security affiliates, and force private bankers from commercial bank boards to curb influence and inside information. Morgan & Co. faces potential loss of control without accepting individual deposits.
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New York
Wall Street
House of Morgan
Winthrop W. Aldrich
Chase National
Rockefeller Industrial-Financial
Morgans
Atlantic
Morgan
Aldrich
Senate
J. P. Morgan & Co
Morgan & Co
Hunt for Gold in Old Mining Camps
Helena Montana prospectors return to Montana boom camps including the Dexter lode where an 1868 survey prompted renewed mining. Abandoned camps are reopened and buildings moved or destroyed as modern seekers haunt these historic sites.
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Helena
Mont
Montana
Dexter Lode
Power and wealth in the Morgan and Rockefeller financial sphere
The piece discusses the influence of Morgan affiliated banks and Rockefeller wealth in global finance. It notes Chase National Bank's assets of about 1.856 billion and deposits of 1.466 billion as of December. It also cites the Rockefellers’ holdings in Standard Oil and lineage to Nelson W. Aldrich and John D. Rockefeller Jr. within a plutocratic context.
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United States Steel Corporation
Morgan Banks
Guaranty Trust Company
Bankers’ Trust Company
First National
Morgan
Chase National Bank
Standard Oil
Wall Street
Winthrop Aldrich
America
Nelson W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Next War Will End Speedily, Says Gen Sir Ian Hamilton
Gen Sir Ian Hamilton warned veterans the next war could end quickly if disarmament fails. He forecast a rapid, mechanized conflict with air sea and land battles deciding the war in weeks, followed by civilian casualties and potential chemical air attacks. He urged immediate disarmament inspections under the League of Nations.
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London
Ian Hamilton
British Legion
Jacquerie
League of Nations
Slump Sparks Rare Pennies in Unusual Collected Cache
In New York two cashiers, W. T. Dudley and Francis Pirie, collected over 400 coins from penny restaurants for the unemployed. The hoard includes an 1863 imitation penny with Not One Cent on the back and an Indian head cent altered to bear a Chinese mandarin image with So Long beneath, noted as lucky pieces amid a mood of economic hardship.
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New York
W. T. Dudley
Francis Pirie
Detective's Four-Year-Old Son Traps Car Thieves
In Birmingham Alabama Dan Bodecker Jr and his father Dan Bodecker of the Bodecker National Detective Agency watched a jewelry display in a theater lobby. The boy wandered and saw two strangers in the car and summoned his father who then led the arrests.
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Birmingham
Ala
Dan Bodecker, Jr
Dan Bodecker
The
Bodecker National Detective Agency
Dan
Bottling Firm Fined $1000 Over Fly In Soda
In Valparaiso Indiana a jury awarded Mrs. Eulah Harvey $1000 damages after finding a bottled fly in a bottle of soda pop. She testified that her health had been ruined.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Eulah Harvey
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