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...elected chairman of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway last April. No railroad man, he spent two months inspecting nearly every mile of Katy's 4,956-mile system, meeting division agents, studying freight problems. Last week Katy gave "Matt" Sloan the post of president in ad dition to his chairmanship. The presidency has been vacant since the resignation last April of Michael Harrison Cahill...
...board of directors, will be effected by an exchange of stock on a pro-rata basis. That it will be approved at a special stockholders' meeting June 20 is likely because it was originally recommended by the stockholders' protective committee formed last April under the chairmanship of George Brokaw Compton. Salaries of new officers will be limited to $10,000, bonuses will be banned unless approved by stockholders, and directors may be ousted at any time by stockholders' vote. Thus from the stage will pass famed United Aircraft & Transport Corp. which last year grossed...
...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...
...week not Postal Telegraph but a sister subsidiary in its International Telephone & Telegraph System made a retiring U. S. admiral its active head. Mackay Radio & Telegraph an nounced that on July 1 Rear Admiral Luke McNamee will become president, succeeding pink-cheeked Clarence Hungerford Mackay who will assume the chairmanship. Now 63 and head of the Naval War College at Newport, R. I.. Admiral McNamee is regarded as the handsomest admiral in the Navy. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1892, served on the U. S. S. Princeton in the Spanish American War, as a staff officer...
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...