Word: branch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...working Woods are active in Gar Wood Industries, led by Gar Wood, who is president. Brother Winfield is manager of the Minneapolis branch. Brother Logan is vice president & general manager. Brother George is the industrial engineer, Brother Edward the experimental engineer. Brother Louis the chief engineer. Brother Philip is manager of the Canadian subsidiary across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ont. Brother Clinton, baby of the family, is manager of the Highland Park plant. And the Brothers Wood make money. Last week they announced that their business for the past twelve months ran 40% above the same previous period, that...
...terror of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, nearly died of typhus. Meanwhile Brother Amadeo's bank, having been demolished in the earthquake, moved into Attilio's house. When he recovered from typhus, Attilio became manager and vice president of Bank of Italy's first branch in San Jose, Calif., later ran his brother's first Market Street branch in San Francisco. At once his partiality for the entertainment business showed in small loans to struggling nickelodeon houses...
...younger brother William. Along with two other executives, Avery Rockefeller resigned from Manhattan's J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp. to set up a new investment house called Schroder Rockefeller & Co. which will handle the underwriting and general securities business given up by the U. S. branch of the famed old London firm under the Banking...
...producers care to experiment. A few departures from banal routine have established Warner Brothers, in their own eyes at least, as bold pathfinders in the realm of entertainment. Last autumn, with The Story of Louis Pasteur, Warner Brothers made the astonishing discovery that straightforward biography, long a well-rewarded branch of literature and the theatre, was equally adaptable to the cinema. The White Angel, another apple from the same branch, is not only a worthy but often a fascinating study of the past, reviving handsomely the glory of bygone days and deeds. A similar entertainment presented on the stage would...
...Premier's brother Antoine, it developed, had long ago adopted without a tremor the "customary" practice of paying himself interest on Government funds that he, as the Legislature's accountant, had the job of depositing. By dealing with his son, branch manager of the Banque Canadienne Nationale, he was able to get a special interest rate that not only paid him his 3% but let the Government have 1½% too. Last week M. Duplessis read a letter from Father Antoine to his son complaining of the annual "annoyance" given him by Government bank inspectors...