Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroads last week came another important 1929 shift of executives. Previous noteworthy changes involved the Southern Pacific. They were the retirement of William Sproale as president, succession of Paul Shoup to the presidency, and the resignation of Hale Holden from the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy to become chairman of Southern Pacific's (New York) executive committee...
...Duties of the president were attended to by Board Chairman Edward G. Buckland...
...Morgan influence especially strong in Guaranty Trust. It was the late great Morgan Partner Henry P. Davison, who, in 1909, began Guaranty's period of swift expansion. Thomas W. Lamont and George Whitney are present Guaranty Morganites. President of Guaranty Trust is blond William Chapman Potter, onetime mining engineer; Chairman of its Board is swarthy Charles Hamilton Sabin, onetime Massachusetts farm-boy. They are brothers-in-law, their wives being daughters of the late Paul Morton, Roosevelt's Secretary of the Navy...
Founded in 1839. National Bank of Commerce has a comparatively merger-fre history of steady growth. Its present prosperity has resulted chiefly from efforts of Board Chairman James S. Alexander, whose son and namesake is second vice-president. President is Stevenson Ward. Last week there was no inkling as to the merger-bank's officers...
Honor most to be desired: Phi Beta Kappa, 94; Major "Y" 33; Chairman of Yale News, and Football Captain, 12; Skull and Bones, 11; Senior Society, 10; University Crew...