Word: ecker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union New" was the provocative title of the subject which Radcliffe and Harvard debaters argued yesterday afternoon at Fay House. C. Bedford Johnson '40 and Allan B. Ecker '41 upholding Clarence K. Streit's plan for world organization, emerged victorious over their opponents. Louise Carus '43 and Margaret Morin...
...Allan B. Ecker '41, New York...
Private capitalists such as President Henry Bruere of Bowery Savings Bank (Manhattan) and Board Chairman Frederick H. Ecker of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. stepped before the committee to suggest, politely, that the Government has gone far enough with low-cost Housing in the rental field, since that is the field (as distinct from the home-owning field) into which large private capital seeking profit might go if encouraged...
There were only two ways, Mr. Ecker admitted, that Metropolitan could stop its growth-not writing any more policies, which would be "utterly destructive to the business," or not adding to its surplus, which would be "dangerous" if mortality rates suddenly rose in an epidemic...
...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 that this was only theoretical, that mutual management was actually self-perpetuating-just as the Armstrong Investigation concluded over 30 years ago. Noting that in the 23 years since Metropolitan shifted to mutual status the management slate has never been opposed, Bill Douglas further noted that at election time it is customary...