Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executive secretary of the Northern Convention, came inquiries last spring from James Hughes Anderson, rich businessman of Knoxville, Tenn. who has tithed his wealth, in increasing amounts, to his church. Mr. Anderson, most potent of Southern laymen, wished to know about the successful Yankee "Every Member Canvass" scheme. Soon Northern President Jones was touring the South, helping the brethren promote their canvass. So enthusiastic was the Baptist Association of the District of Columbia, whose churches support both conventions equally, that it memorialized the Northerners for reunion. This, a matter for committee consideration, is not likely to result in any organic...
...Auburn was ready to expand. Mr. Cord, looking for more speed, had had his eye on Frederick Samuel Duesenburg, who was then building mostly racing cars at his Indianapolis plant. Speed king and a fine designer, Duesenburg was no businessman; his company was nearly bankrupt. Cord got control of it by an exchange of Auburn stock. Another thing he wanted was Lycoming Manufacturing Co. which supplied power plants to Auburn. Long builders of automotive, marine, industrial engines, Lycoming was being marked for its new airplane engine. Cord got Lycoming in 1927 the same way he got Duesenburg. For two years...
Last week the American Weekly retold as current news the fascinating story of Charles Lange of Port Townsend, Wash., a whimsical businessman who, having raised a school of salmon trout from the egg, keeps them in a pool beneath his office window, trains them to rise at his call, eat from his hand, even jump from the water through a hoop...
Besides Pilot Hinkler's evident ability as a distance flyer and navigator. Editor Grey portrays him as a smart inventor but a poor businessman; an extraordinary testpilot but utterly lacking in tact? "quite capable of going to a managing director and telling him that if he really wants to make money out of aeroplanes the best thing he can do is pension off his chief designer just for the sake of keeping him away from the Design Office...
...liquidation checks last week: 30% from one bank, 15%, and two of 10% from the others. "I am through with banking and from now on I will confine my efforts to manufacturing," said Clement O. Miniger, robust but lately pale president of Electric Auto-Lite Co. A hard-working businessman, Mr. Miniger was caught in the swirl of real estate and banking developments by the boom, found himself a round $5,000,000 poorer when Toledo was forced to take stock of itself. Now, to recoup losses, he is working harder than ever. Automobile accessory business curtailed. Auto-Lite...