Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inside." Without additional financing and by sheer merchandising ability he doubled sales in four years, pushed them to a peak of $14,000,000 in 1930. But neither he nor President Noah was willing to go into American Woolen on salary alone. They made a deal to collect a bonus on all that American Woolen earned over $2,000,000. At the time the company did not mind granting this privilege, since it had just lost $4,897,000. On the basis of earnings announced last week, Chairman Warner will collect over...
...told the Lapham family that its holdings entitled it to one director, not three. It urged the company to hire an "executive of outstanding experience and proven ability," recommended that Jack Lapham be ousted as chairman of the executive committee for lack of practical oil knowledge. It criticized the bonus plans (lately dropped) and loans to employes and officers (including Mr. Holmes). It took the management to task for spending company funds in its counterattack on Mr. Holmes, for using company employes to drum up proxies. But, said the committee, "such antagonism has developed between Mr. Holmes and the operating...
...oath." She thinks the boys came home bursting with patriotism, eager to continue serving their country. Since understanding, idealistic leadership was lacking, the returned crusaders disintegrated into citizens no better than stay-at-homes. Distressed that the A. E. F. should have degenerated into the American Legion and the Bonus Army, Authoress Mayo sought the answer in the pension system, investigated French, German, English, Italian methods, then compared them with the U. S. She found that...
...pensions are increasing. No European nation thinks of pensioning an ex-soldier simply because he was drafted to fight for his country. Yet the U. S. provides pensions for Federal veterans of the Civil and Spanish Wars, and voted (over the vetoes of Harding, Coolidge) an extra bonus, payable in 1945, to all honorably discharged men in the World War. The reason why U. S. pension figures are rising while those of other nations show a gradual decrease is because pensions in the U. S. are a political issue. Though the basic law regulating U. S. World War pensions...
Vice Chairman Rentschler, brother of National City Bank's President Gordon Sohn Rentschler, had bought $253 worth of Pratt & Whitney stock, ran up a paper profit of $35,000,000, liquidated most of his holdings for $9,514,000. While "Chuck" Deeds's salary and bonus as secretary-treasurer and vice president had been comparatively modest, Vice Chairman Rentschler collected $1,585,544 in six years-the years during which the U. S. Government paid to United Aircraft's subsidiaries a total of $87,564,988 (half of which it got back from the public...