Word: conversationalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quiet Sewell Avery, one of Chicago's leading citizens, able conversationalist, last week looked well worth what he costs his stockholders. His salary was not given but in his report he disclosed what had been the chief inducement offered him to take the job: an option to purchase 100,000 shares at $11 a share. He furthermore disclosed how the company got shares that it holds in its treasury against his option: 43,117 were repurchased with 5% interest from employes who had bought them on stock subscription plan-thereby saving the employes from loss; 49,178 shares were...
...good conversationalist, Dr. Baker likes to read Greek, Roman and Early American history, to play golf and take long walks. For some 25 years associate superintendent of Pittsburgh's schools, he still belongs to many a smart Pittsburgh club, still takes his wife to opera or theatre there. But he has been ill ever since he underwent a serious operation last year, and his health and temperament were affected long ago by the death of his only son, Lieut. Edward David Baker, an aviator who was shot down in France...
...white stone Gothic edifice, St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral at Memphis, Tenn., stands the house of the Cathedral's dean. Here, in 1921 from Georgia, came Rev. Israel Harding Noe,- with his wife, Mrs. Ellen Morris Camblox Noe. Friendly, more personable in appearance than she, a good conversationalist, he guided his large flock ably, over pulpit and radio, until he came to be known as one of Memphis' most popular churchmen. A liberal, a patrician, he distinguished himself-without seeking notoriety-in such matters as an attack last month on Tennessee's famed anti-evolution laws...