Word: chairmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filled with exotic birds, had grown less and less active. There were no Kings left in the firm. Two years ago President Browning started to put his company into receivership, listing himself as a $486,000 creditor. The court granted a stay. Mr. Browning moved up to the board chairmanship, put Vice President Edward C. Koempel in as president. But business did not improve and President Koempel was unable to work off his load of debts. With insufficient capital, with merchandise, rent and realty liabilities of approximately $500,000, Browning, King was last week turned over to Irving Trust...
When Rainey stepped into the Speakership and Doughton into the Ways & Means chairmanship, Republicans groaned. They said Doughton had no social graces or imagination, that he neither drank nor smoked, that he rose at 6 in the morning and went to bed every night at 9, that he was absolutely impervious to influence...
...Railroader Leonor Fresnel Loree bought control of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Lines ("Katy") which he planned to merge with his Kansas City Southern and with St. Louis Southwestern. The Interstate Commerce Commission refused to approve the merger, forced Railroader Loree to dispose of his holdings, resign the chairmanship of Katy. Last week his successor, Board Chairman & President Michael Harrison Cahill, also resigned, for personal reasons (wife's illness). Katy directors left the presidency vacant, elected as chairman bold, shrewd Matthew Scott Sloan who abruptly resigned from the presidency of New York Edison Co. in 1932. "Matt" Sloan, whose first...
Secretary of War George H. Dern today announced Baker's acceptance of chairmanship of the board on which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh refused to serve because he disapproved the cancellation of private air mail contracts...
...among other things, let Freeport's reserves approach the point of exhaustion. He became vice president and a Baltimore banker named Eugene Norton took the presidency "in trust." Last year Langbourne Williams felt he was old enough to assume official control and Banker Norton moved up to the chairmanship. Last week it was Mr. Norton who made way for Chairman Jock Whitney. Today this brimstone company has probably the youngest management of any major corporation in the U. S. The president: 32; the chairman...