Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shadows spread across the Atlantic last week faster than the Clipper plane that brought home Cinemastars Tyrone Power and his wife,Annabella. At Binghamton, N. Y., Dr. Ernst Schwarz, German-born president of Agfa Ansco Corp. (cameras, film), got his U. S. citizenship papers and quickly told the newspapers about...
...past six months David Colony has also organized St. Luke's Towel Co. (80 stockholder-employes), whose entire output is taken by a New York jobber; Hulby Hosiery Corp. (33 employe-owners) and Colony-Sharp Carpet Co. (75 workers), in whose organization the Rev. William Sharp of nearby St. Paul's joined...
Most investment trusts buy securities that they expect to pay dividends and increase in price, and then wait for their hopes to come true. Manhattan's Phoenix Securities Corp., run by a group of hard-headed businessmen (its chairman, bald Wallace Groves, is under indictment in a mail fraud case not connected with Phoenix), favors another technique. It often looks up an anemic corporation, gives it a financial blood transfusion and an infusion of hardheaded management and takes its fee in the form of options on shares that prove valuable if the treatment is a success...
...comes to all U. S. Steel Corp. employes at three score and ten, retirement came last week to hard-boiled round-faced Thomas Moses, vice president in charge of raw materials. At eleven Welsh-blooded Tom Moses began his career in an Indiana mine, soon had a union card. By the time he was 40, he had changed to the management side of the tracks, and in 1933 as president of U. S. Steel's subsidiary, H. C. Frick Coke Co., carried the ball for Steel in its first New Deal struggle with labor. His successor: tall, greying Yaleman...
...Aging and ailing is H. (for Hiram) Edward Manville Sr., son of co-founder Charles B. Manville of Johns-Manville Corp. Since 1927 when control of the company passed into public hands and its management was given to professional executives (first Theodore Merseles, then Lewis H. Brown), one-time President H. Edward Manville has held only titles (the most recent: Chairman of the Board) and yachted about for health with his society-conscious wife. Last week he retired. Since his nephew Tommy Manville is an incorrigible playboy and his son Edward Jr. is still a worker in the ranks...