Word: conway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Stock Exchange, Charles R. Gay, yielding to the demand of SEC Chairman William O. Douglas, started looking for a man to serve on a committee to revamp the Exchange's constitution. He picked a nonmember industrialist whose company was listed on the Big Board-Chairman Carle Cotter Conway of Continental Can Co. The recommendations of the Conway Committee eventually became the basis for the spectacular reform of the world's chief market place (TIME, Feb. 7, et seq.). Last week upon the nomination of Exchange President William McC. Martin Jr. (who got his big chance...
...young men seeking a career that will combine adventure and desirable social contacts with high financial rewards, Too Hot to Handle can be dismissed as foolishly overenthusiastic. As entertainment-lavishly produced by Laurence Weingarten, compactly written by Laurence Stallings and John Lee Mahin, directed at breakneck speed by Jack Conway-it can be heartily recommended...
...light. Viewing the crash (by then the Dow-Jones average had dropped to 113), the depression and Douglas' determination, Gay decided it was time to play ball. To the fury of the Old Guard, he appointed a genuinely liberal committee headed by a non-Exchange member, Carle Cotter Conway, dynamic chairman of Continental Can. Among the liberals on the Conway Committee was William McChesney Martin...
...Carle Conway immediately trotted off to Washington to see Douglas, surprised him by asking for advice, promised to deliver the goods by January. Douglas promised in turn to hold off until then. So in Manhattan the Conway Committee set to with vim. Chairman Conway supplied the drive; Secretary Martin supplied the expert knowledge of Exchange doings; all were agreed in objective. And on January 27 they produced just such a program as Douglas wanted-complete reorganization, with a paid president, increased technical staff, various safeguards to insure democratic rule. Few days before the Conway plan came out, Douglas gave...
...Charles Island they took ashore gifts (food, medicine, newspapers, magazines) from the Senior Shellback to Heinz Wittmer & family, Mr. & Mrs. Elmir A. Conway of California and five Ecuadorian Indians who constitute the island's population...