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Spring Station is perhaps the strangest of stockholders' stamping grounds but some other corporations also select out-of-the-way places for their annual meetings. Mathieson Alkali meets at Saltville. Va. (pop.: 2,964), F. W. Woolworth Co. at Watertown, N. Y., near Utica where it was founded, Anaconda Copper at Anaconda, Mont. U. S. Steel meets at Hoboken, N. J., where it serves a light lunch. Not all big U. S. corporations seek inaccessible spots. Of the 29 with the largest number of U. S. stockholders, eight meet in New York, five in Wilmington, two each in Baltimore...
...Minister in some country where they speak the English language. I've been mining copper for 35 years now, and most of the mines out there were dug by the Irish. They sometimes call Butte Little Ireland. One of my friends, the late Marcus Daly, who founded the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., was an Irishman. I am not trained in diplomacy or anything like that but I guess I can handle...
...means the highest paid. President Walter Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph had his salary cut from $229,167 to $206,250 last March. Highest straight salary for 1932 was $250,000, paid to Charles M. Schwab as board chairman of Bethlehem Steel. President Cornelius Francis Kelley of Anaconda Copper got $249,232 in 1932, against $345,000 in 1929. Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem Steel got a $1,600,000 bonus in 1929 but his $12,000 salary had been upped to $180,000 for 1932. That year George Washington Hill was paid a $120,000 salary...
...Production Anaconda...
...appointed Secretary of the Treasury. Col. House, who could not stand Washington's summer heat even when Woodrow Wilson was in the White House, wanted no job for his contribution to the Roosevelt war chest. Neither, according to report, did rich, affable, unassuming Manhattan Lawyer Frank Walker, Anaconda Copper's lawyer. But because Mr. Walker is smart and useful President Roosevelt gave him two anyway, first as treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, and, in July, as secretary of something called the Council of Recovery. This body, composed of key men in the recovery program, meets Tuesdays...