Word: co
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...custom these payments are turned over to directors' wives some of whom last year profited to the extent of $4,100 in this way. Mr. Coolidge, retired public servant, is not alone in being elevated to high office in a big insurance company. Last month Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. elected Alfred Emanuel Smith to its board of directors.* There he will sit with one-time Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Alanson Bigelow Houghton (Republican),† President of the Associated Press Frank Brett Noyes (Republican), Steelman Charles Michael Schwab (Republican), Lawyer John William Davis (Democrat...
...explained that he had been so pestered by a life insurance agent that suicide had seemed attractive. . . . The pestiferousness of such agents- porch-climbers, telephoners, buttonholers. classmates-may soon become a matter for the attention of Citizen Calvin Coolidge. Last week he accepted nomination to New York Life Insurance Co.'s board of directors and assignment to the agency committee where he will specialize in "human contacts." His formal election will occur in May. Twenty-eight years ago this same company considered Mr. Coolidge a doubtful risk and hesitated to issue him a $3,000 policy because...
...same time, the Canadian Gov ernment permitted U. S. agents to stand on the Windsor, Ont., liquor export docks as a means of checking rum-running to Detroit, which cut the flow to" the low ebb of 500 cases per day. This, Canada considered, was part of "neighborly co operation," whereas the I'm Alone case involved a major international principle...
Newsprint. Some 90% of Canada's woodpulp and paper production goes to the U. S. International Paper & Power Co., a U. S. concern with holdings in the Dominion (see p. 40), has developed such a grip over the U. S. supply that last year the threat of a Canadian embargo made U. S. newspaper publishers shudder...
...General Mitchell advised Secretary Wilbur's board that it had no power to sanction such an agreement and thus immunize the industry against anti-trust prosecutions. Disgruntled, A. P. I. officers threatened to buck the anti-trust law anyway and, as President Ralph Clinton Holmes of the Texas Co. put it, "if by chance we are held to be acting in restraint of trade, leave it to the courts to determine whether such restraint is in the public interest or not." But the Hoover administration recalled this clause in the final section of Article 1 of the Constitution...