Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rear Admiral Hutchinson I. Cone, U. S. N. (retired), of Florida, to succeed Rear Admiral William S. Benson (retired) on the U. S. Shipping Board. Rear Admiral Benson had displeased President Coolidge by repeatedly opposing sales of U. S.-owned merchantmen...
Among those Atchison directors are such bishops of U. S. finance as: William Benson Storey, President of the Atchison; Edward Julius Berwind, Manhattan holder of coal, shipping and transportation enterprises; William Chapman Potter, President of the Guaranty Trust of Manhattan; Arthur Twining Hadley, President Emeritus of Yale; Charles Steele, Morgan partner; Henry Smith Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation since 1906; and Myron Charles Taylor, Chairman of U. S. Steel's finance committee...
...began in 1901, with $3.50. They changed successively to $4 $4.50, $6, $5, $5.50, $6, then (3 years ago) $7. For more than a year there have been extra $3 dividends on the common stock. That extra-fruit of "Old Man" Ripley's tillage, of present President William Benson Storey's cultivation-the Atchison directors by their action last week regularized...
Last week President William Benson Storey of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway Co., Chairman of the Committee on Uniform Express Contracts of American Railway Executives, announced flatly: "We are going to consider within the next week at a meeting in New York whether to go further with the plan or not." The "plan" is for the railroads to assume the $300,000,000 to $400,000,000 annual business of the American Railway Express Company. Later, President Storey declared, rather to the surprise of railroad executives generally, that he had the approval of railroads carrying...
...being a Dr. Straton, he is not sanguine in the opinion of one school of adult commentators, that his contemporaries, with all their frankness and freedom, are still as strongly supporting the moral conventions. They are not, even if they have no spokesman to admit it. The precocious Miss Benson has discussed the subject in Vanity Fair, but she really is too young. Without being accused of ventriloquism, Judge Ben Lindsay has drawn startling statements from young Cleveland malefactors, and wielded them for his purpose. But the educated youth, fearing the sensationalism that dogs his step, has chosen...