Word: directorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Matthew Chauncey Brush, head of American International Corp., resigned as chairman and a director of Barnsdall Corp, Eugene William Stetson, vice president of Guaranty Trust Co. also resigned his directorship. Robert Law, largest Barnsdall stockholder, good friend of the late Theodore Newton Barnsdall, was made chairman of the board. Mr. Law's sons are named Robert Barnsdall and Theodore Newton...
...with a difference which was typified by the man chosen to head it. He was Earle Bailie, who abandoned a promising law career in 1919 to enter finance and proved his astuteness so quickly in 1923 he was made a Seligman partner. The Tri-Continental directorship includes such important "outsiders" as Albert Henry Wiggin and Clarence Edward Groesbeck, president of Electric Bond & Share, but its management is distinctly from within. Its research staff is large and skilled, and Mr. Bailie places great faith in the "field trips" which his men take to survey business throughout the U. S. at first...
...three daughters. A clerk in the famed law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, he argued small jury cases in court as intensely as if they had been national issues. With great personal enthusiasm he invested in various local enterprises and took with grave responsibility a big local bank directorship. He bought a modest estate in green, pretty, outlying Chagrin Valley and took to horse ?polo-wise (foxhunting was a trifle slow). For years he never touched airplane. Nor did it occur to him to travel to Europe. There was plenty of work, fun, people in Cleveland...
Lester Armour, 35, grandson of Philip Danforth Armour, resigned his directorship and vice-presidency of Armour & Co. Only Armour remaining in the organization is Grandson Philip Danforth Armour...
...present city of Kirkuk. This place which for 3500 years has been a deserted mound was once the flourishing city of Nuzi, the center of a community of people both commercially and artistically minded. Here for the past three years excavations have been going on under the respective directorship of Edward Cheira, Robert H. Pfleffer, and R. F. S. Starr, during which time sufficient area has been laid bare to give an extremely accurate picture of the lives and customs of the people who lived there prior to the destruction and desertion of the city shortly after 1500 B.C. Great...