Word: caperton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Oscar Caperton...
Ambitious Mr. Conway launched an expansion program which more than doubled the size of the company, pushed it west to the lush packing shores of California. He even gobbled up the third biggest unit in the field, U. S. Can, and with it Oscar Caperton Huffman. Mr. Huffman was not anxious to sell in 1928 but one day he turned up in Mr. Conway's Manhattan office. Mr. Conway began a long speech about all the benefits of a merger but he was cut short...
...with fear he ordered the massacre of 200 political prisoners. That strategy failed to tally, for the enraged populace grabbed President Sam from the French legation, where he had taken refuge, and literally tore him into bits. Pandemonium broke out, and on the following morning, July 28, 1915, Admiral Caperton landed troops and the American intervention began...