Word: dexter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most veteran of Hollywood directors and The Squaw Man is his favorite picture. He made it first in 1913. eight years after William Faversham and William S. Hart played it on the stage, with Dustin Farnum in the hero's role. Four years later De Mille coaxed Elliot Dexter and Jack Holt through its sequences of sacrifice and agony. His feeling for his reiterative classic has now come to resemble that of an after-dinner orator for his favorite anecdote. Adroit, devoted and familiar, he squeezes its antique situations with enthusiasm and an understanding of talking picture technique...
...present I hold the position of president of Purcell Dexter & Co. We make loans to the fellows at school and do a little investing in The New York Stock Exchange. Now, I was wondering if you would suggest anything else we could do along the lines of banking. We are rather handicapped because nobody in the company is over the age of 16. Our authorized capital stock is 25 shares of common stock at twenty-five cents ($.25) par value and 100 shares of preferred stock at one dollar ($1.00) par value. The dividend on the preferred...
...wiser banking heads than TIME'S suggest stunts for able Purcell Dexter & Co.-ED. How Amory Looks Sirs...
...Last week President Hoover received Egyptian Minister Sesestris Sidarouss Pasha (presenting letters of credence). President Walter F. Dexter of Whittier College, Calif, (to discuss his book President Hoover and American Individualism), President Richard Waldo of Mc-Clure Newspaper Syndicate (to report on business conditions after a 10,000-mi. U. S. trip), Editor John B. Chappie of the Ashland, Wis. Daily Press (to denounce the Brothers La Follette as Communists), General Superintendent Ernst Stoltenhoff of Coblenz, Germany (to say "How do you do, Mr. President...
Married. Madeleine B. McCarter, daughter of President Thomas Nesbitt McCarter of Public Service Corporation of New Jersey; and Carlos Dexter Kelly, Manhattan stockbroker; in Rumson...