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...Dorothy Benjamin Caruso Ingram Holder, who lives near by, reported that since the armistice she had lost 22 lb. - Ordered to report April 16 (a month earlier than expected) for his year's military service was bespectacled, Sabbath-observing, unmarried William McChesney Martin Jr., 34, $48,000-a-year president of the New York Stock Exchange. - After doing her best to save civilization at Geneva, pale, implacable Alice Paul, founder, chairman and planetary lobbyist of the World Women's Party for Equal Rights, landed in New York City, announced: "Men are to blame for the present war." - Straw...
Last fall Benton & Bowles advertising agency lost its share of the $6,000,000-a-year account of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Lo. (No. 2 U. S. soapmaker), with it a large part of its billing (TIME, Oct. 28) This week B. & B. snapped back into soaps, got a contract to handle the $1,250,000-a-year Ivory Snow account for Procter & Gamble Co. (No. 1 U. S. soapmaker...
...plan looked good enough to do Trustee Wardall out of his $25,000-a-year job. It provides for a maximum of 18 directors, names ten of them. Probable new president and boss of McKesson & Robbins: First Vice President William...
Last week some other bankers got a chance to pay Jesse back. It happened in Chicago, whose No. 1 bank, the Continental Illinois (chairman: Jonesman Walter Cummings), is almost a Jones colony (TIME, Nov. 27, 1939). One of the juiciest plums in town is the $35,000-a-year presidency of Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, which fell vacant last month. Jesse already had the nucleus of a good organization built around Cummings (a Reserve Bank director) and First Vice President Howard Payne Preston, an RFC alumnus. For president he wanted his present RFC head, Emil Schram...
...woman aid committee is blue-eyed, bouncing Gracie Fields, England's favorite comedienne. Once a $1,000,000-a-year woman, she now pleads patriotic poverty. From 62 performances in the U. S. and Canada, she has turned over $130,000 to her country. Chorus from her hit song: We're going to 'ang old 'Itler from the very 'ighest bough of the biggest aspidistra in the world...