Word: douglases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week TIME surveyed 100 typical weeklies and bi-weeklies in 30 States and found that: 1) Most of them had good business in 1938 and the early part of 1939; 2) boiler-plate and corn-cure ads are disappearing; 3) their news is ably written but editorials are either...
Leon Henderson, Isador Lubin and Willard Thorp (TIME, Dec. 12). Shortly thereafter Thurman Arnold's Department of Justice trucked across the floor waggling a finger at patent monopoly in the glass container industries (TIME, Dec. 26). Last week it was the turn of SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. As...
Although the Armstrong Investigation viewed with alarm the steady mushrooming of the biggest insurance companies, no effective legal brakes were applied. At that time there were 138 legal reserve companies with aggregate assets of $2,924,253,848. Last week Bill Douglas declared that at the end of 1937 there...
But before leading Metropolitan's self-made Chairman Frederick H. Ecker onto the floor, Bill Douglas reassured the 64,000,000 people in the U. S. with life insurance policies (45% of them with Metropolitan). Said he: "No policyholder need have any concern that any fact brought out in...
At one point Witness Ecker remarked that "the agent in his canvassing-he is resourceful. . . ." One aspect of Metropolitan agents' resourcefulness was considered next day. The Metropolitan is a mutual company, its policyholders being its shareholders and theoretically therefore electors of the management. Bill Douglas set out to show...