Word: bertram
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maurice Grau, then General Manager of the Metropolitan, offered to let her sing in a Sunday night concert, but Farrar, 16, refused. A Sunday night concert was no occasion for a prima donna's debut. Instead Sidney Farrar sold his store in Melrose, borrowed, in addition, from a Mrs. Bertram Webb of Boston some $30,000* and the Farrars started for Europe?on a cattle boat...
...Goodrich Co.'s President Bertram G. Work died in Europe the first week of September, after 20 even years of leadership. Last week the directors chose his successor-Harry Hough, who has been with the company but a few years. Mr. Work's great contribution to the company affairs was in finance. New President Hough was long a banker in Akron, Ohio, factory site of Goodrich;* then he became Goodrich's comptroller...
...BERTRAM ENOS...
...costs. Ford Motor Co. is already making a great share of its tires at Highland Park, Mich., in spite of its cordial relations with Firestone Tire & Rubber. Goodyear, still controlled by Clarence Dillon, supplies Dodge Bros., which he also controls. Goodrich, while it remains under the domination of Bertram G. Work, will persist a unique entity. And it is not probable that U. S. Tire, which once sought to be the "trust" of the rubber industry, will become subordinate to any motor manufacturer. But smaller rubber companies could be bought up, notably, according to discussions, Ajax Rubber. That William Crapo...
...industrious, however, all roads lead to eminence. Last week Young Brother, plain "Mister" Louis Bertram Hopkins, was installed as seventh president of Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.), in the presence of august trustees, judges and nine college presidents, including Big Brother, the learned Dr. Ernest Martin Hopkins, president of Dartmouth, who greatly enjoyed delivering an inaugural address...