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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then, a vigorous man of God who still plays first base on Church teams, he has busied himself with such Church bodies as the National Conference of Jews & Christians, such welfare organizations as the Rhode Island Birth Control League, to which he lends respectability as the father of seven children. Last week in Springfield, Mass, at a special convention of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts-the one sliced off his father's old see-Son Lawrence was elected on the second ballot to succeed the late Rt. Rev. Thomas Frederick Davies...
Last week Ayer's solemn progress was rudely disturbed by one of those things the old firm so deplores in the affairs of its livelier corporate clients -a well-publicized fight for stock control. The year its new building was finished, N. W. Ayer & Son was converted into a corporation with a stock ownership limited to Ayer officers and employes. Control, how ever, continued to rest in the hands of President Wilfred Washington Fry until his death last summer (TIME...
...Batten plan, declared Mr. Thornley, was a "program by which certain of the corporation's stockholders, to the disadvantage of the others, would be privileged to obtain control of the company by use of the company's funds...
Snapped President Batten in a public counterattack: "In today's newspapers appears a statement purporting to emanate from George H. Thornley, formerly a vice president of N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc., to the effect that he has exercised an option to acquire stock control of this corporation. . . . Since he is seeking to establish this contention over the opposition of all parties concerned by litigation, the officers of the corporation are opposed to any attempt to try the case in the newspapers...
According to its articles of association, Gaumont control must remain in British hands. It was not quite clear where real control would rest when the Schencks and Ostrers finished their shuffling, but the patriotic assumption was that Hollywood would be a great deal deeper in Gaumont than before. As summer passed it became evident that the Ostrer-Schenck deal was not jelling...