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...payment of $2,500. She did this at the behest of her longtime boarder and not-so-longtime second husband, financial writer Clarence Barron. But Mrs. Barron really was the owner, and when she died in 1918, her majority share passed to her daughter by her first marriage, Jane Bancroft...
...Bancrofts have held a controlling stake in Dow Jones ever since. Jane's husband Hugh Bancroft was company president for a time, but since his death in 1933, the family has mostly kept its hands off. "I want you to do what's best for the company," Jane reportedly told her husband's successor, reporter turned manager Casey Hogate. "Don't you and the boys worry about dividends." The modern, globe-spanning Journal was thus built by "the boys" from the newsroom while the Bancrofts stood benignly by (though they did, as the Journal returned to health after the Depression...
That's the case at Dow Jones. A decade ago, two of the younger Bancroft cousins began agitating for more shareholder-friendly management. They've gotten their way, to an extent. For the first time since Hugh Bancroft, the company has a CEO who didn't rise through the reporting and editing ranks. But the stock continued to flounder until Murdoch came along with his hugely attractive offer...
...deficit. “It was definitely just a really intense, close game the whole time,” Simmons said. “It was back and forth, which made it really exciting and really nerve-wracking at times.” When play resumed, sophomore midfielder Sarah Bancroft notched one for Harvard to tie the game at sixes. Midfielder Kelly Robinson and junior midfielder Mimi DeTolla each scored for Brown, but two goals from Schoen and one each from Flood and Simmons put the Crimson up 10-8. The Bears would never lead again. Harvard?...
...addition to Schoen’s multi-point game, junior Caroline Simmons found the back of the net twice and recorded one assist. Sophomore Kaitlin Martin, who leads the team with 35 goals, similarly scored two goals while sophomore Sarah Bancroft, freshman Sara Flood, and junior Ali Hines each scored once...