Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. John George Gehring, 75, neurologist, psychiatrist; of a heart attack; in Bethel, Maine. Many a prominent U. S. businessman, lawyer and physician has consulted Dr. Gehring, taken treatment at his home in the Androscoggin Valley. Setting them to dig potatoes and swim, he relieved their nervous tension. Dr. Gehring and his "inn" were the prototype and scene of Novelist Robert Herrick's The Master...
...Business friend the Earl of Bessborough as Governor General. Lord Bessborough is the first vice-regal occupant of Rideau Hall to have been chosen by George V on the advice of a Canadian premier. He is the fourth Irish peer to be Canada's Governor General. As a businessman Lord Bessborough was said last week to have collaborated in drafting the "Provisional Agenda" which Premier Bennett made ready for the Conference after consulting all His Majesty's governments in all parts of the British Commonwealth...
...father built was foreshadowed a year ago when he became chairman of the executive committee of Illinois Central (25% U. P. controlled), marking his first major entrance into railroads. Son Harriman. who was 1 8 when his father died in 1909, has exhibited diligence and ambition as a businessman but has yet made no great name for himself. His financial backing has come largely from his mother. Mrs. Mary W. Harriman, who describes herself in Who's Who as "sole heir upon death of husband to estate appraised at about $100,000,000." In 1916 he resigned a Union...
When the Graf Zeppelin made her first flight from Germany to the U. S. in 1928 Hearst correspondents had exclusive right to send news despatches en route. North American Newspaper Alliance's Berlin agent arranged with a passenger, Robert Reiner, Manhattan businessman, for descriptions of the flight which he would send as private radiograms to friends in the U. S., although all passengers were required to sign an agreement with the airship operators that they would not give out reports during the flight or for eight days after the landing. Passenger Reiner sent ten messages...
...this task Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley in Chicago appointed as receivers: 1) Edward Nash Hurley, politico-businessman who once headed the U. S. Shipping Board and last month procured both Republican and Democratic conventions for Chicago; 2) Charles Alexander McCulloch, who recently bolstered the business of the late John R. Thompson one-arm-chair cafeterias; 3) Samuel Insull. When an. objection against Mr. Insull's appointment was made, Judge Lindley exclaimed: "This company is Samuel Insull's own child. His appointment is not improper because if he were excluded the company would miss the benefit...