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These rumors and their variations spurred boardroom sitters to action in brokerage offices throughout the U.S. Their buying huffed low-priced motor shares into new high ground, made them the most active on the Exchange. The rumors blew Graham-Paige before the steely eyes of the SEC, which already, like thousands of small speculators, was asking, "What goes...
...back at his Riversdale home by the next June, sleeping little, writing much, aging fast. His daughter Anne began to beat him at croquet. Down at the Abbey "it was rather sad to see [him] climb the stairs to the boardroom, stopping at the landing to recover breath so that he might make a lordly entrance as of old." He got out his final version of A Vision; his infinitely re-revised Collected Poems; his last book of verse (New Poems); his violent prose work On the Boiler, with its animadversions, scornfully antidemocratic as always, on popular education. Rilke...
After Lewis had decreed a strike of 53,000 miners in the soft-coal fields, after the President had made two mild, well-mannered pleas for peace, Lewis summoned newsmen to the elegant boardroom of the United Mine Workers to hear his great defiance...
...windowed OPM boardroom one day last week, 18 automakers sat and held their breath. Ex-automaker Bill Knudsen had just told them they had to cut their production by an average 26½% for the first four months of the 1942 car year, 50% for the full year (to 2,150,000 units...
...Wilmington, Del., one day last week, went a handful of the 10,000-odd stockholders of Aviation and Transportation Corp. Gathered in its boardroom in the Corporation Guarantee & Trust Co., they helped elect three new directors (one of them bristle-maned ex-Champ Gene Tunney), asked a few questions, went their ways. Question none of them thought to ask was one that has been kicked around in the flying business like a sandlot soccer ball : what is ATCO going to do about simplifying its corporate structure...