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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jawed Charles G. Guth became a vice president of Loft, Inc. in 1929, immediately began gunning for control of the $13,000,000 candy-&-restaurant chain. At the 1930 stockholders' meeting, a police cordon was needed to keep the scrap verbal. That year Charles Guth collected enough proxies to make himself president. In 1935, embattled President Guth resigned. Instead of ending, the Guth-Loft squabble thereupon entered a new and noisier phase...
When he was 15, Arthur Flatto began buying stocks out of his allowance (first was U. S. Rubber). In 1929 he got into Western Union, at 240, later bought more. Russell Sage once said that only once in a lifetime did a man have the chance to enrich himself by buying Western Union below $50 a share, and when that chance came, Arthur Flatto took it and held on. Last week he held 1,350 shares of Western Union, selling...
...three, all sons of the late Joseph J. Derham, a wheelwright and carriage maker who came from Ireland and set himself up on Philadelphia's swank Main Line in 1887 to build victorias, broughams, phaetons and surreys for the Drexels, Pauls and Cassatts. Before long the automobile began to cut into the carriage maker's business. After a haughty but futile effort to ignore the new invention, Joseph J. Derham gave in and adjusted his trade to the times...
...Durstine, who began as general manager of BBD&O, became president in 1936. But there was no little guessing that he was difficult to work with, and advertising profits in the 1930s were not so great as they had been in the salad days of Barton, Durstine & Osborn. Last week Roy Durstine suddenly resigned, giving no reason. Bruce Barton became president and William H. Johns, head of the Batten firm when it merged, was made chairman of the BBD&O board. What adman Durstine would do next was admen's gossip last week...
...Anor and Meimei (16, 13 and 8) are the daughters of Lin Yutang (The Importance of Living), that hard-working and engaging Chinese exponent of the leisurely life. Says doll-like Meimei, who is spoiled and collects stamps: "Father told Adet and Anor to write some diary. Soon they began to write and it became very good, so Father told them that maybe it can be published." A Chinese equivalent of the Abbe children's travel diaries, Our Family is more charming, thanks to the contributions of tomboy Anor. Anor's family and travel observations, her Rats...