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...Fred and Frank Larabee in their home town of Hutchinson, Kan. The Commander mills were originated by Banker Benjamin Belcher Sheffield, now head of Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Association, W. H. Sudduth, a farmer, and W. D. Gregory. Messrs. Sheffield & Sudduth sold out to a group which included Shreve McLaren Archer, 40, head of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., one of the biggest linseed crushing companies in the World. In 1930 his company bought control of Commander-Larabee of which he now serves as president. Chairman of the company is Guy A. Thomas who is 57, looks 20 years less. He started...
Both Chairman Thomas and President Archer have many outside interests. The real bosses of Commander-Larabee have been its three vice presidents: Clarence M. Hardenbergh in charge of operations, Robert W. Goodell (formerly with King Midas Mill Co.), executive vice president, and Martin Luther, in charge of sales. A new vice president, to be in charge of Texas business, will be J. Paul Smith of the newly acquired company...
...ARCHER FULLINGIM...
Experiences at sea had freed old Captain Archer of local New England trammels, just as experiences on shore had left his wife tradition-bound. Between these two influences their only child, Mattie. grew up, strait-laced and windy-willed at the same time. After her mother's death Mattie is free to do as she pleases, but nothing happens until the Ladybird and its blue-eyed Captain Isadore Davis put in to Bowfort. At the sight of free-&-easy Isadore, Mattie's blood goes wild. Out to sea she sails with him, without letting her father know...
...Captain Archer takes her in as if nothing had ever happened. But Mattie is moonstruck with too much trouble, and her son adds more. After his engagement to the wealthy Richards girl, he turns around and marries Bessie Casey, a poor fisherman's daughter. Mattie vaguely senses that he is repeating her own headlong mistake, but she encourages him in memory of the brief bliss she once knew. Bessie Casey, though no equal, will make a good wife. Captain Archer consoles himself with the thought that great-grand-children were what he wanted most...