Word: elie
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's most questionable statement was that if history could be remade, "we would have none of this holding company business." Even his own high priest of public power, Director David Eli Lilienthal of the Tennessee Valley Authority (a holding company), once declared: "Perhaps most important of all, to the holding company must go the credit for the unprecedented flow of capital into the public utility industry, making possible extensions and improvements of service...
...reputation for tight-lipped accounting is National Biscuit Co., world's largest ("Uneeda") bakers of cookies and crackers. In the 37 years of its history it has never missed a dividend; last year made $11,598,000. On its board sit such conservative stalwarts as President Jackson Eli Reynolds of Manhattan's First National Bank and onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. The last person you would expect to see at its annual meetings would be a stocky, blue-eyed, personable young labor leader with a fistful of proxies from striking but stockholding employes...
...Eli's opponent in the finals will be decided in a semi-final playoff between Army and Pennsylvania Military College, Thursday, Army, unbeaten all season, trounced a strong, Princeton team, ten and a half to two: while Pennsylvania Military Academy encountered slightly stronger opposition than the Elis in their game with Cornell. Appearing in the National tourney for the first time, Cornell offered a strong opposition but lost twelve...
With A. Townsend Winmill '37, and Thomas J. Davis '35 scoring the sole point for the Crimson, the Eli team, riding hard and skillfully, indicted upon the Crimson trio their second defeat of the season, thus blasting their hopes of reaching the National finals...
Both Varsity and Freshman swordsmen fell before the onslaught of powerful Blue teams in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium at New Haven Saturday. The teams met in a double-header program with the Eli Varsity triumphing 16-11 and the first year men meeting defeat...