Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gain for the session of over nine points. This reflected marketwise the fact that the Fisher brothers of Detroit, onetime owners of Fisher Body Corp. lately incorporated into General Motors Corp., had waged successful battle for representation on the board of directors of Baldwin Locomotive Works, of whose common stock they own 120,000 shares, a controlling interest. Samuel Vauclain, President, opposed to the Fisher brothers, was prevailed upon to allow them two places on the board. The importance of their victory was. diminished by President Vauclain's success in enlarging the Board from 12 to 15 members,* thus...
...close to the time when he organized the U. S. Steel Corp. His ideal was to create great corporations that would lead their fields. In steel he succeeded: in shipping he failed. The overdue, unpaid dividends on I. M. M. preferred stock now amount to tidy millions. The common stock, under such circumstances, has of course earned nothing...
Engaged. Cyril Francis Maude, 65, famed English actor (retired), widower (1924); to Mrs. Harry Thew, widow (1926) of the onetime master of the Brexhill Harriers. The Maudes were oldtime neighbors of the Thews at Little Common, near Brexhill. Recently Mr. Maude was offered the role of Samuel Pepys in And So To Bed, also the lead in The Zoo (new play by Michael Arlen and Winchell Smith); said he: "I am already engaged to be married...
...club building is in keeping with the rest of the Business school in the beauty of its architecture. The first floor is devoted to a lounging room very similar to the common rooms of the Freshman Halls. The second floor contains the offices of the Business School, Yearbook, and a library. The third floor is occupied by several billiard and pool tables...
...unusually large fall turnout of over 150 Freshman crew aspirants crowded into Smith Halls Common Room at 7 o'clock last night. Coach H. H. Haines of the freshman crews and Captain John Watts '28 spoke to the first-year...