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...return to Reserve service not only marked a reversal of a much-criticized policy: it also provided the Board with a suitable figure to act as chairman of the New York Reserve Bank. Last winter Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Eccles ap-Brothers and Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp. in the Paramount reorganization. Mr. Fortington quit after a split on an involved question of profit-sharing arrangements with theatre operators, departed for Labrador, where he owns a salmon river. Whether Joe Kennedy has any suggestions for resignations will not be known until his final report is published. More comforting...
...Dakar Hospital. Said he: "When we left Grimsby, it was to fish. But Skipper Osborne had plans of his own. He was going to sell the boat in some foreign port and divide the proceeds with the crew. . . . We had no charts-only a child's atlas we'd bought at Woolworth's. . . . I was ill. In Dakar . . . they had to leave me behind. I can't say I'm sorry...
Married. Stanley Odium, 20, elder son of Manhattan Financier Floyd Bostwick Odium (Atlas Corp.); and Dorothea Beverly Klehr; in Harrison...
...Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, Otto Sverdrup, Director Lecointe of the Brussels Observatory, Captain Bernier of the Northwest Mounted Police, and Anthony Fiala. . . . The Danes have never withdrawn the medal and degree they conferred upon me for their belief in the fidelity of my work. Stielers Atlas, a work of such authority that it is found on the tables of all important mapmakers, recognizes my success. Recent writers on the subject-J. Gordon Hayes, Captain Thomas F. Hall and others-have expressed their belief...
Greyhound crashed into trouble when Depression struck. Its superb operation under President Wickman continued to make profits but not enough to carry its dividend commitments. These might well have ditched Greyhound for good but for the timely arrival of smart Atlas Corp., which in 1933 took over Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. and with it Greyhound. Atlas left President Wickman in the saddle but cut off the huge dividend arrears by a redivision of stock. With six railroads owning a share in them, Greyhound Lines last week had 1,726 busses which traveled 137,998,394 miles in 1935, an increase...