Word: arching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporting the petition in bankruptcy of New Era Motors, Inc., TIME gave an erroneous account of the early years of Arch M. Andrews, head of New Era and director in many another famed company. Brought up in a strict Chicago family, Mr. Andrews began work at 19 in the brokerage business and soon owned a company dealing in bank stocks and unlisted securities. Since then, he has financed (in some cases single-handed): a seal-top for milk bottles (Standard Cap & Seal); the Dictograph; the acousticon; Budd all-steel automobile bodies; Trans-Lux ticker. In all of these he remains...
...rumored that the plain stone which is just above "Tutor's Arch" will shortly be graven with some appropriate sentiment, but that those responsible are in difficulties as to a wise choice...
...April 1929, New Era Motors, Inc. was formed. Heading it was an archpromoter of the New Era, Arch M. Andrews. It was the year that Promoter Andrews, one day in Chicago, announced to friends that he was 50 years old and 50 times a millionaire. Hard indeed would it be to trace the course of either Promoter Andrews or his fortune during those 50 years but Andrews acquaintances readily believe his story that he made his first money doing a song & dance number with his brother in the back rooms of Chicago saloons. He still is a lively ban joist...
...listed at $317,000; liabilities at $855,000. Strange seemed the fact that last year New Era Motors paid a $600,000 dividend on the common. A big New Investment Era Co., with creditor a is A. claim M. for Andrews $293,000. And a lucky creditor is Promoter Arch Andrews. His individual claim of $77,200 is secured by the Ruxton patents, almost certain to be of use when the next New Era dawns...
Representatives Fred Albert Britten of Illinois and Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer of Missouri also cried out against Mr. Fess's leadership. The Wet Republican press re acted even more sharply, and certain arch-Republican editors captioned editorials FESS OUGHT TO GO and THE BLIND SENATOR FROM OHIO. Hearst papers quoted an unnamed Republican leader as saying: "If this split continues there will be a Nationalist party...