Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absurd," spluttered Sir John Simon, "to think that they were guinea pigs who left Lord Kylsant to do what he liked and merely drew their directors' fees...
Wages. When U. S. Steel cut its great 40% stock melon in 1927, Judge Gary drew up the Board in two long lines and jubilantly invited reporters in to see his potent directors "in the flesh." But at last week's meeting the directors, confronted with the poorest quarterly statement since the pre-War era, cut the common dividend from a yearly rate of $7 to $4 (TIME, Aug. 3). They left the meeting hastily, silently, Morgan-Partner Lamont forgetting his hat in his hurry. But President Farrell had something to tell reporters. Four words: "Wages were not touched...
...Wife of slick, shrewd Lawyer Max D. Steuer, who prosecuted the Bank of U. S. officials. She had an account of $54,117.45 in the bank. The day before the bank closed, she drew this out, but forgot the $.45. Widespread is the story that an official almost talked Mrs. Steuer out of withdrawing her account, that she telephoned her doubts to her husband, who replied: "Listen, Bertha, did you go to the bank to hear conversation or to get out your money...
...inhabitants of the Erie's New York office will all be installed in Cleveland. Wall Street oldsters recalled that the last time the Erie moved was in 1868 -a highly immoral escapade across the Hudson with Messrs. Jay Gould, Jim Fisk and "Uncle Dan'l" Drew, three most disreputable characters. Commodore Vanderbilt's legal maneuvers had made it too hot for Gould's company in New York, so they packed up the Erie books, boarded a ferry, set up the road's offices in Jersey City's Hotel Taylor. There they held "Fort Taylor...
With the old Yippee! of the cowpunching West, Cheyenne last week held its 35th annual celebration of Frontier Days, at its big park sentimentally dedicated to the era when Cheyenne was a way stop for the Pony Express.* The original U. S. rodeo, Frontier Days drew all the West's best cowhands for five days of hard competition. Governor William Adams, onetime cowboy, went up from Colorado to watch the fun. Publisher Frederick Bonfils of the Denver Post, last great frontier pub publisher, took 400 guests to Cheyenne in a special train. There were pep and parades, noise...