Word: crowley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while Bob McConnell was beaming over Polectron and Promika, politics-an old Aniline bugbear-rose up to plague him. His principal stockholder was scouting around for a new board of directors. The stockholder: Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley, who owns 97% of Aniline. Talk was that the new board chairman would be Manhattan's razor-smart Victor Emanuel, a director of Standard Gas & Electric, of which versatile Leo Crowley is board chairman...
...this would do to Bob McConnell. But what really titillated Wall Streeters was that Victor Emanuel, who is also an investment banker, might get a chance to underwrite a deal selling Aniline, with its $64,000,000 of assets. This is the juiciest piece of alien property in Leo Crowley's portfolio. The question: Has Crowley finally decided to sell...
High scoring honors for the day went to Walt Crowley and Joe Lavin of Northeastern and H. C.'s Chet Lakowski with ten apiece. Crowley took the 880 and the mile while his teammate chalked up his points on a first in the high jump a place in the broad, and a show in the low hurdles. Lakowski triumphed in the shot and discus...
Ditto. In Rayville, Mo., Pearl Crowley, who had become Pearl Crowley Crowley when she married a Crowley, married again, became Pearl Crowley Crowley Crowley...
...Custodian Crowley, this patent policy was no dreamy reform, but strictly a wartime measure. He did not presume to answer the central question around which all the wrangles over U.S. patent reform have revolved: how to encourage invention and competition at the same time (TIME, April 27). But it may well turn out that, with one stroke, Businessman Crowley (who is still the $50,000-a-year boss of Standard Gas & Electric) accomplished far more patent reform than Professor-Trustbuster Thurman Arnold with all his fulminations about how the U.S. patent system encouraged the Nazis to "strangle...