Word: boardrooms
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Southern fields. Which meant, of course, that Messrs. Atterbury & Williamson would haul a much smaller chunk of Pittsburgh's 10,000,000-ton annual output. Five years ago the I. C. C. refused Pittsburgh Coal permission to build the 12-½-mi. spur. But in the boardroom of Pittsburgh Coal it was finally decided that I. C. C. permission was superfluous; the spur would be a private road, not a common carrier. Last year construction crews were sent into the wild hills near Smiths Ferry. Into the courts marched the lawyers for orders preventing the contractors from throwing...
...company. Last week in that office, unlike Mr. Beaty, he had a platoon of stenographers working busily on a campaign to justify his reign. Out to Texaco stockholders and the Press went a 43-page booklet containing Mr. Holmes's version of last spring's boardroom battle and a list of his good works. With it went a letter from a stockholders' committee, asking for proxies for a special stockholders' meeting in October. Mr. Holmes swore that he was not trying to regain the Texaco throne but only desired election of twelve additional directors. Mr. Holmes...
...manager of the Rochester, N. Y. office of L. F. Rothschild & Co., Manhattan stockbrokers, last week banned women from his boardroom. "Women are usually star readers or chart followers," he explained. "They try to influence others with their theories. Some used to grab our mail before it was opened...
...which younger men were pushed ahead to ease the burden of oldsters. Leading the list of men with diversified interests was, as usual, Banker Charles Hayden with 82 directorships. Albert Henry Wiggin and Matthew Chauncey Brush tied with 47. Alfred Emanuel Smith listed seven. Leading those who sit at boardroom tables of subsidiaries and affiliates within one complex industrial empire was Albert John County, vice president in charge of finance and corporate relations of the Pennsylvania R.R. with 121-down five from last year. Close behind was Henry Latham Doherty of Cities Service Co. with 114. Third, with...