Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Albert Hall Harris, director of fourscore companies, to be chairman of the executive committee of the New York Central R. R. Co.; to succeed, in duties but not in title, the late chairman of the board of directors, Chauncey Mitchell Depew...
Conde Nast, publisher of Vanity Fair, Vogue, etc., purchased the controlling interest in the Grand Central Palace and a neighboring office building in Manhattan. The deal involved $15,000,000. He said he would use the upper floors of the Grand Central Palace for permanent industrial exhibits and continue the policy of leasing the three lower floors for annual automobile, boat, flower shows...
...also decided at the Congress that a permanent central office should be established and that the functions of this office should be taken over by the president and his secretary, with the provision that if the state of finances should warrant the establishment of a separate central office, this should be effected...
Lowering darkly, Leonor Fresnel Loree quit the Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan last week, leaving behind him in a meeting room Presidents William Wallace Atterbury of the Pennsylvania, Patrick Edward Crowley of the New York Central, Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio and John J. Bernet of the Erie, together with M. J. & O. P. Van Sweringen of the Chesapeake & Ohio (old Nickel Plate) group. They all, with the aid of lesser officials who were also present, had been discussing the consolidation of the railroads that operate between the Atlantic and the Mississippi, and north of the Ohio-the Eastern roads...
Died. Chauncey Mitchell Depew, 93, Chairman of the New York Central Railroad, of pneumonia; in Manhattan...