Word: coburn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quiet Graham Bethune Grosvenor was president of wide-flung Aviation Corp. for two years when he was succeeded by hardbitten Frederic Gallup Coburn. President Coburn had served approximately two years last week when suddenly he relinquished the executive office on the 47th floor of Manhattan's Chanin Building to a broad-framed young man with a grin and a pipe. It was not surprising that the name of the president-elect, La Motte Turck Cohu, should be better known in Wall Street than in airway operations. Avco, which has yet to show black ink on a profit & loss statement...
Epee: Tompkins (Y) defeated W. F. Williams, Jr. (H), 2 to 0; D. L. Oliver (H) defeated Coburn (Y), 2 to 0; D. L. Oliver (H) defeated Tompkins (Y) 2 to 1; W. F. Williams, Jr. (H) defeated Wing...
...Philip Johnson of United Air Lines; Frederic Gallup Coburn of American Airways; Clement Melville Keys of Transcontinental & Western; Harris Hanshue of Western Air Express; Capt. Thomas B. Doe of Eastern Air Transport; Edwin G. Thompson of Transamerica Airlines Corp.; Col. L. H. Brittin of Northwest Airways; Alfred Frank of National Parks Airways...
Engaged. Archduke Leopold von Habsburg, brother of Archduke Anton (see above), who was tried and acquitted in Manhattan last autumn for fraud in the sale of the famed $400,000 Maria Theresa necklace; and Mrs. Alicia Gibson Coburn, rich Canadian who arranged for his bail, visited him in the Tombs, sought to have him given a private room, bath and kitchen. Said Archduke Leopold: "I love American ladies and also love to live in America...
...company, its factory and flying field at Farmingdale, L. I., to Aviation Corp. In return it received the common stock held by Aviation Corp. in Fairchild. Control of the company passed to the group of minority stockholders headed by Sherman Fairchild, who was elected president to succeed Frederic Gallup Coburn...