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Message: [QUOTE="Jan C. Nielsen, post: 266266, member: 166041"] You're welcome, guys. Apparently, the University of California has some 5,000 or more photographs which they acquired from Elise Stern Haas, before she died in 1990. Many of the photographs are from the 1950s through the 1980s, but she had other photographs handed down from her mother, Rosalie Stern. Rosalie, of course, was the older sister to Edgar Meyer. I looked through the inventory for any connection to Dr. Dodge. Sure enough, one of the inventories listed a photograph of "Herbert Fleishhacker." He was the president of the Anglo London Paris National Bank, and the Anglo California Trust Company. Dr. Dodge had worked at the bank, and certain officers of the Trust Company, Tilden Tegnazzini and Charles Legee, sued Dr. Dodge in connection with the Federal Telegraph scandal. I can't believe that Tegnazzini and Legge would have sued Dodge without Fleishhacker's express consent and knowledge. Now, apparently, as the inventory list reveals, Fleishhacker and the Stern family were friends. Here's what I suspect happened: Dr. Dodge used his connections at the Bank to gain investors for the Federal Telegraph Company, including, inter alia, the Stern and Meyer families. Dodge reorganized Federal Telegraph, but something didn't pan out, or maybe, Dodge needed money. He resigned from Anglo London Paris National Bank in 1917, in part, I think, because he was going to orchestrate a deal for himself out of the Federal Telegraph Company's assets. Such a transaction would be adverse to the shareholders, who included friends of Fleishhacker. Thus, Dodge left the bank to make himself more independent of these other people who might be adversely affected by his plans. The following year, he did the deal -- and the fall out started. After the Federal Telegraph stock's value plummeted, and Dodge got his "insider" commission, this shareholder group, the Sterns, Lazard Freres, Tegnazzini and Legge (with Fleishhacker's backing) went after Dodge. [/QUOTE]

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