Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stayed on as president until his young son Walter, four years out of Yale, stepped into his father's shoes in 1921. When Container Corp. was formed, Walter Paepcke became its president at 29. For his executive vice president he had an old-line boxmaker named John Paul Brunt, onetime head of Mid-West Box, which was acquired shortly after the merger...
...earnings started to fall. The paperboard industry was feeling the effects of tremendous overproduction from new mills. Container met price cut with price cut, depending on big sales volume to make money. President Paepcke thought that quantity would be his company's salvation. But to conservative Boxmaker Brunt, whose credo was quality, the Paepcke policy seemed all wrong. Stubborn, he started a proxy fight to oust his young boss, lost in 1931. Accepting a lump-sum settlement for his salary contract, Brunt...
...Those who bear the brunt of furnishing advice to investors and wholesalers have been enthusiastic" in the search. "Needless to say, they have found evidence of such a correlation. As the number of sunspots mount, prosperity turns the corner, prosperity hides itself in a depression." It is now said that prosperity is turning the corner; sunspots are improving in number as well...
Chief defense attorney was brilliant, liberal Frank P. Walsh, who has made his name & fame by dramatic defenses of everybody from Edward L. Doheny to Tom Mooney. Of the three House managers, Alabama's chunky Sam Hobbs bore the brunt of the prosecution...
Prospects for the coming season are not too bright for Captain Jackson and his team. Losing Glidden, Gilder, and Sargent, numbers one, two, and three respectively, the brunt of the attack will fall on Dick Dorson, Alvah Sulloway, and Jackson, returning veterans...