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Died. Henry S. Pickands, 53, of Cleveland, Great Lakes coal, ore and shipping tycoon (Pickands, Mather & Co.); in his Cleveland office; of heart attack...
Died. Edward Prizer, 73, of East Orange, N. J., Chairman of the Vacuum Oil Co.; in East Orange...
...like nation, are a majority of the world's outstanding businessmen. Their leader, by implication, is leader among businessmen of the world. Last week at the Harvard Business School more than 200 students, from 27 states and three foreign countries, chose Owen D. Young, board chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. of America, chairman of the second Reparations Conference, as "the one outstanding American businessman...
...richest, most literate agricultural State become concentrated in one bank, that situation is significant. The State is Iowa-farm products $750,000,000 yearly, industrial products $800,000,000. The filter is Des Moines, population 151,900. The bank will be the lowa-Des Moines National Bank & Trust Co., resources $40,000,000, result of a merger (to be formally voted next week) which has more relative importance to the corn belt than the recent stupendous bank mergers in Manhattan, Chicago or San Francisco have to their districts. It means that small metropoles-and Des Moines is typical of several...
Directors will include the Hubbells, richest Iowa family after the Maytags (washing machines) of nearby Newton. The Hubbells own the $100,000,000 Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Iowa, and $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 of Des Moines real estate. Connecticut-born, lawyer-trained Frederick Marion Hubbells, 90, is head of the family. He acts as chairman of the insurance company. Two much younger Hubbells, Fred and Jim, financed and starred on the Des Moines polo team for several years...