Word: ecker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obtaining one," the letter read, "I will with your permission apply for it. I would like to get a position where I would have a good chance of advancement." Last week, 75 years after he was hired as an office boy (salary: $4 a week), spry Frederick Hudson Ecker, 90, honorary board chairman of the giant ($80 billion in insurance) Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., sat through a dinner in his honor, reminisced to his audience about the company's great past. President for seven years (1929-36) and board chairman for 15 more, Ecker has worked without pay since...
...minority have the right to demand equal facilities, and a state which fails to provide them should be penalized. But to integrate the schools against the will of the vast majority is a crime against democracy. Such action will only harm the public schools of the South. TERRELL W. ECKER Laredo, Texas...
Strongest opponent of the variable is the world's biggest insurance company, Metropolitan Life. President Frederic W. Ecker argues that the variable annuity would undermine the entire industry by implying that life-insurance companies no longer believed in their own product of guaranteed dollar investments; in place of the traditional sure thing, it would offer speculation in the stock market. Says Ecker: "We want to see nothing done which will cause a loss of confidence in the life insurance business. I don't want to be answering letters from policyholders which say: 'Last year you paid...
...Into the No. 1 spot, replacing ailing President Charles G. Taylor Jr., 69, of the $11.6 billion Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. stepped Executive Vice President Frederic W. (for Worral) Ecker, 57, son of former (1929-36) Met President Frederick H. Ecker, 85, now honorary chairman. A Harvardman ('18), poker-faced (and poker-playing) Frederic Ecker won a D.S.C. and Croix de guerre as a World War I infantry lieutenant, tried his hand briefly in the securities business before following in his father's footsteps at Metropolitan...
...Arthur Ecker, 3L served as chairman of the Lawyer's Community committee at the 4th annual meeting of the American Law Students Association in San Francisco, California, it was learned recently...