Word: budd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their unceasing consolidation battles. Last week they smote a new chord on their lyres, began a new canto of the railroad epic. They turned to the West and the great Western railroads. In San Francisco last week sat Charles D. Mahaffie, Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Before him came Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern, Paul Shoup, President of the Southern Pacific, Arthur Curtiss James, Western Pacific Board Chairman, Harry M. Adams, Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these persons came before Commissioner Mahaffie either to support or to denounce the building...
Engaged. John Marshall Budd, Yale senior, son of Ralph Budd, president of Great Northern Ry., and Frances, daughter of Stanley Hale Bullard (Bridgeport manufacturer) ; at Fairfield, Conn...
...First National of Minneapolis. The list of directors, incomplete last week, is to include the presidents of seven railroads. Chairman of the Board is Clive T. Jaffray, President of the SooLine (previously president of the First National of Minneapolis). Other railroad presidents already on the board are Ralph Budd, head of Great Northern, and Charles Donnelly, head of Northern Pacific. Besides bankers of four States (including James E. Woodward, president of Metals Bank of Butte and Sam Stephenson, president of First National of Great Falls) the board will number leading industrialists. Among those already chosen are John D. Ryan, Cornelius...
...capitalized at $5,000,000, all privately subscribed) expects to build 500 Ruxtons by July 1 and 12,000 during 1929. Its president, A. M. Andrews, is a director in Hupmobile Motor Car Corp., its vice president and designer, W. J. Muller, is an engineer with the Edward G. Budd Manfacturing Co. (auto bodies), and one of the directors is Vice President Frederick W. Gardner of Gardner Motor Co., Inc. This personnel, coupled with the announcement that the car will be built in Cleveland and in St. Louis plants, resulted in the surmise that the "plants" are the old Cleveland...
...President Andrews is also a Budd, as well as a Hupp director. At the age of 19 he was a dealer on the curb market, retired from the brokerage business (1919) at 40, bought, and later sold, a chain of California hotels. His Connecticut estate, Freestone Castle, is patterned upon English models; he has also a Colonial home in Altadena, Cal. He is the owner of the Sialia, a yacht formerly in the possession of Henry Ford. The Sialia is the fourth largest privately owned yacht in the world...