Word: directors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speakers at the meeting will be Dean Sperry, Zechariah Chafee, professor of Law, Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, Gordon Allport, associate professor of Psychology and William Bingham, director of Physical Education and Athletics. William Chambers '39 will preside at the meeting...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Nov. 15--Hedy Lamarr, glamorous film star, has been invited to attend the Harvard-Yale football game which will be held Saturday, Joseph Mulhavey, her publicity director said here today...
Danton's Death (by George Büchner; produced by the Mercury Theatre). Mars Director Orson Welles having blasted the U. S. into an uproar over the radio, Mercury Director Orson Welles turned last week to the peace & quiet of the French Revolution...
Fortnight ago Frank R. Coutant, director of research for the advertising agency of Pedlar & Ryan, Inc., estimated that even though use of market research has jumped 50% in the last three years, U. S. industry is spending a mere $4,500,000 a year for it. (Estimated expenditure for engineering research: $300,000,000.) Only a handful of the biggest U. S. companies indulge in market research to an appreciable extent* and of these General Motors makes the biggest splash, spending something less than $500,000 a year for the purpose...
When Montgomery Ward & Co. lost $8,712,023 in 1931, the directors started searching for someone who could pull the big mail-order house out of the red. For $100,000 annual salary and an option on 100,000 shares of stock at $11 (now selling at $50), they got Sewell Lee Avery. Chicago's No. 1 businessman and director of a dozen top-flight U. S. corporations, Mr. Avery won fame by nursing U. S. Gypsum Co. through Depression 1 with profits and dividends every year. Still more remarkable was his revival of Ward's. It netted...