Word: cohu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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, is of prime concern to the bankers who underwrote its $40,000,000 financing and who own a large part of its shares...
...investment broker, President-elect Cohu learned aviation from the inside after his firm organized the investment trust called Air Investors Inc. (a substantial stockholder in Aviation Corp.). When the management of that firm became involved, Broker Cohu was made president. Year ago he was elected a director of Avco, became known as "a sort of Col. House of the directorate." He held no other office but was always being called into important committee meetings...
...Princeton (1917) "Turck" Cohu roomed for four years with his brother Henry Wallace ("Wally"). He was intercollegiate light-heavyweight wrestling champion. Today his weight is exactly the same-175 Ib.-and he still likes to wrestle at the New York Athletic Club. Also he plays good golf at Southampton, L. I. with his friend Publisher Wilfred John Funk. More than golf or wrestling he likes chess. He is rarely seen without a pipe between his teeth...