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...ALLYN F. ROBERTS...
...went to work for his father, who was in poor health. A few years later, in his first big deal, young Victor bought out his father's utility interest. He and Chicago Banker Arthur Cecil Allyn put up about $750,000, got the rest of the nearly $5,000,000 they needed for the deal through public stock issues. The new Emanuel-Allyn company (National Electric Power Co.) promptly expanded in all directions, in typical Emanuel fashion, soon controlled 14 utilities sprawled across the nation. The system, and the beautiful map outlining it, so impressed the late Samuel Insull...
...take over just about all the utilities in the U.S. Before the plan went into effect, Loewenstein mysteriously jumped or fell from a plane over the English Channel (V.E. is sure he fell). But Emanuel, backed by the Schroders, who had been Loewenstein's bankers, and A. C. Allyn, among others, went ahead anyway. They fixed their sights on the multi-millioned Standard Gas & Electric System. Altogether, they ante'd up about $60,000,000 and formed the U.S. Electric Power Corp., a holding company with Emanuel as president to take over Standard Gas. But Emanuel & friends couldn...
Last week Minisi told why he quit Annapolis: "I wasn't going to follow a Navy career. I don't think it would have been right to get my college education at the Government's expense." Mississippi State Coach Allyn McKeen had an equally ingratiating explanation of McWilliams' decision to leave West Point: "He found it unpleasant there. He didn't like the discipline...
Down on the Farm. Though he is the best handler of horses now handling, Ben Allyn ("B.A.") Jones, 61, modestly claims only an abiding love for anything that neighs. He first straddled a horse at the age of four on his father's farm in Nodaway County, Mo. He used to run match races around a half-mile farm track. Very early he formulated his cardinal, cryptically simple rule of training: "Just give them what they need, whenever it looks like they need...