Word: barreness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Incoming Chairman John Barr, 47, born on a Hoosier farm, looks enough like Avery to be his son. He stands...
...Mandate? But Avery angrily turned down the deal. When the annual meeting publicly exposed Avery's slipping grip and Corporation Secretary John Barr had to take over the gavel, the five directors knew they could wait no longer. They decided that Avery must be replaced by up-and-coming John Barr. Also slated for ouster: Edmund Krider, 42, an ex-accountant picked as $76,000-a-year president by Avery in 1952, who was considered to possess Avery's ruthlessness without either his charm or ability. The directors tackled Avery again, suggested that having won over Wolfson...
...pressure grew too great for Avery. His doctor and his two daughters begged him to resign. The directors instructed Barr to call a special meeting of the board, prepared a resignation for Avery to sign. At the board meeting the expected bitter showdown did not occur...
...same courtly manners and, at close range, the same considerable charm. Like Avery, he is a lawyer (Indiana '30) and a "clean-desk man." He started in Ward's legal department in 1933, quickly rose to be director of labor relations. Avery's respect for Barr rose at the way he masterminded Ward's fight against the War Labor Board, which included the famed carrying-out of Avery by the Army. Under Barr, the union was kept out of Ward. Recently, when Avery needed the A.F.L. Teamsters' support against Wolfson, Barr was just as effective...
...Tops." By 1949 Barr's affable efficiency had won him a vice-presidency and the key post of corporation secretary. He survived the great man's purges partly by knowing when to keep his mouth shut. When he disagreed with Avery it was always in private and in a courteous manner. Barr is popular with the staff, has even won a Wolfson accolade: "In my book, he's tops...