Word: chairmanning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among them was Walter Channing of Boston, Chairman of the Racing Committee of the New England Sled Dog Club, who beat Seppalla's time on the second day's run but lost to him on the average of the two days' time, because his harness had broken on the first lap. Hiram Mason was third. He was driving for the Taylor-Mason kennels at Tamworth, N. H., of which the other member is Mosely Taylor, President of the New England Sled Dog Club, an amateur who since 1921 has helped finance races. Fourth...
...clash is to determine whether or not Col. Stewart shall be re-elected as chairman of the board of directors of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, at the annual meeting of stockholders in Whiting, Ind., on March 7. Stockholders of record of Feb. 5 will be entitled to vote or send proxies. Standard Oil Co. of Indiana has issued 9,160,000 shares of capital stock, which are now held by some 58,000 persons or companies...
Round 2. Mr. Rockefeller Jr., a minority stockholder in Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, examined Col. Stewart's testimony, talked with him, asked him to resign as chairman of the board. According to Mr. Rockefeller Jr., Col. Stewart promised to comply with this request. Nine months passed and Col. Stewart did not resign, in fact refused to resign. Mr. Rockefeller Jr. sailed for Egypt last fortnight, but left behind him a letter to stockholders, expressing loss of confidence in Col. Stewart and asking for proxies to oust him. In Chicago, Col. Stewart replied: "If the Rockefellers want to fight...
Newspapers. Anglo-Foreign Newspapers Ltd., a $15,000,000 holding company was formed last week in London, to acquire a group of British and continental newspapers. Chairman Harry S. Home will scout for French and German dailies. Vice-chairman Sir Robert Donald, onetime editor of the Daily Chronicle, will investigate possible British acquisitions...
Tentative plans for the new building which will house the Institute of Biology were announced yesterday by Oakes Ames '98, chairman of the committee of biologists who are working on the proposed structure, toward which the International Education Board recently contributed $2,000,000, with a promise of an additional $1,000,000 when the University shall have raised $3,000,000 for endowment...