Word: buckners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon receiving his LLB in 1923, he entered the New York law firm of Root, Clark, Buckner and Howland, where he was so successful that he soon departed to form his own firm of Parker and Garrison...
...Hoover, Mr. Smith and New York Life's President Buckner lined up behind President Buckner's desk for three-cornered handshaking photographs. There was a moment's hush, broken when Mr. Hoover leaned over to President Buckner, volunteered in a sepulchral whisper: "I have shrunken an inch...
Back to Manhattan sped Joe Day with the Government's guarantee in his pocket. Not from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (of which he is a director) did he get his loan. He went, instead, to see President Thomas A. Buckner of New York Life. New York Life's Board, on which sit such G. O. Partisans as Herbert Hoover, Nicholas Murray Butler and Charles D. Hilles, considered Joe Day's mortgage with a U. S. guarantee, decided it was a good way to set 5,500,000 idle dollars earning their keep...
Conspicuously vacant at last week's meeting was the chair in which Thomas Aylette Buckner has sat for 33 years as director, four years as president of New York Life. This chubby-cheeked little man had gone to St. Petersburg, Fla. to attend a meeting of insurance agents. In his 54 years with New York Life President Buckner has penned many a homely sermon to inspire his salesmen.* Restless, singleminded, immensely capable, he began as an office boy in Milwaukee, attracted the attention of New York Life's Agency Inspector George W. Perkins (who became a Morgan partner...
Armistead Buckner Rood '31, 2L, of Concord, Mass.; was on university crew squad--Matthews hall...