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First Bob Young's man John W. Davin, new president of the Nickel Plate (New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad), told his preferred and common stockholders to expect no dividends for at least five years (they have already waited for eleven years), since all of Nickel Plate's earnings were earmarked for paying off more than $21,000,000 of debt due in 1947. Then Robert J. Bowman, the successful Young candidate for president of Pere Marquette Railway, told his equity holders that they could go begging until $40,000,000 of bonds due between...
...coronation was held in a Cleveland board room where Financier Young got three of his friends elected to important railroad jobs: lawyer-trained Carl Elbridge Newton, 44, as president of powerful and profitable C. & 0.; up-from-the-yards John W. Davin, 50, as president of C. & 0. subsidiary New York, Chicago & St. Louis (the "Nickel Plate"), which owns a whopping interest in Wheeling & Lake Erie; and ex-Freight Clerk Robert Jay Bowman, 51, as president of C. & O. subsidiary Pere Marquette...
Swinging deck chairs, clubs, anything they could lay their hands to, the Bremen's stout Nazi crew went to work. As the fight spread, some of the women pulled out handcuffs, fastened themselves to the railing, screamed imprecations against Realmleader Hitler. Reported Editor Thomas Davin of Robert M. McBride & Co., publishers: "As we crossed over the deck, we saw a woman handcuffed to the rail. . . . The officer was striking her with what appeared to be a blackjack. ... As he hit her she ducked around. Then another fellow caught her. He held her head still with one hand over...
...summary: HARVARD PROVIDENCE Boys, Ernst, r.f. l.f., Hagstrom, Bleiden, Morrissey Grady, White, Lavicies, l.f. r.f., Carew, Gallagher, Davin Gray, Morse, c. c., Smith, Collins Fletcher, r.g. l.g., Bostick, Bellivean, Carver, Kutneski Kollinites, Morse, Tittman, l.g. r.g., Madden, Augelien...
Married. Cecil Calvert Smith, 30, 10-goal member of the West polo team; and Mary Mulford Miller, 20. Long Island socialite; in Wading River, Long Island, N. Y. Married. Frank Aiken, Irish Free State Minister for Defense, "only bachelor in the de Valera Cabinet''; and Maud Davin, director of the Dublin Municipal School of Music; in Dublin...