Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavily tapestried, rococo boardroom of the 34-story New York Life Insurance Building in Manhattan, Director Alfred Emanuel Smith leaned forward in his chair one day last week and said in a firm clear voice: "I move to adopt the committee's report nominating Mr. Hoover." With a single chorus of "Ayes" all gentlemen present thereupon voted to elect Herbert Clark Hoover a director of New York Life, succeeding the late John E. Andrus (TIME, Jan. 7). From Chicago where he was transacting private business on one of his infrequent trips east from Palo Alto, Director Hoover telegraphed...
...second ex-President of the U. S. to become a director of New York Life. Calvin Coolidge faithfully attended directors' meetings from 1929 until his death. Director Hoover revealed last week that New York Life had urged him in 1933 to accept Mr. Coolidge's vacant chair, before they finally offered it to Dr. Angell. And everyone expected last week that the company would pay for Director Hoover's transportation across the continent to attend monthly meetings, as they had paid Director Coolidge's expenses when he went down from Northampton. Mr. Hoover will receive...
Conspicuously vacant at last week's meeting was the chair in which Thomas Aylette Buckner has sat for 33 years as director, four years as president of New York Life. This chubby-cheeked little man had gone to St. Petersburg, Fla. to attend a meeting of insurance agents. In his 54 years with New York Life President Buckner has penned many a homely sermon to inspire his salesmen.* Restless, singleminded, immensely capable, he began as an office boy in Milwaukee, attracted the attention of New York Life's Agency Inspector George W. Perkins (who became a Morgan partner...
...Camden, N. J., a few nights after the bout in Boston, Ernie Dusek wrestled Gino Garibaldi. A spectator in the balcony hurled down a chair which hit Ernie Dusek on the head. He was hospitalized...
Frederick T. Lord '97, becomes Clinical Professor of Medicine, Emeritus. Professor Lord has been on the staff of the Medical School since 1909, and has held the chair of Clinical Professor of Medicine since...