Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inability to get capital financing was one complaint that jelled last year at the Small Businessmen's Conference (TIME, Feb. 14, 1938, et seq.). Since then three bills have been introduced in Congress to improve credit lines to small business. Last week Acting SEC Chairman Jerome Frank announced that all three bills would be held in abeyance while SEC and the Junior Chamber of Commerce collaborated in a study of the problem...
...This year Lima is dining a little less frugally-it got an order for twelve locomotives in February. And last week Lima had a new face at the head of its table. Vice President John E. Dixon became president in place of Samuel G. Allen, who remained as chairman...
Automobiles. General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan, No. 1 in 1936 with $561,311, dropped to $183,708. (His company sold 4% more cars in 1937 than in 1936.) G. M.'s President William S. Knudsen dropped from $459,878 to $247,210. Ford Motor Co. paid Chairman Henry Ford nothing, President Edsel Ford $146,056, Vice President Peter Martin $171,465, Superintendent Charles E. Sorensen $166,071. Nash-Kelvinator Corp. paid its President George Walter Mason $233,957; Chrysler Corp.'s Chairman Walter P. Chrysler drew...
Bankers were led by Chase National's Chairman Winthrop W. Aldrich, with...
...Light Co., nationally known as a model utility. It has no truck with holding companies, has only common stock (few bonds), has constantly slashed its rates. Head of this white sheep of the utility industry has long been genial old Samuel Ferguson, who four years ago moved up to chairman, turned over the presidency to handsome, Danish-born Viggo E. Bird. Last week, to Hartford's openmouthed horror, Viggo Bird turned out to be an embezzler...