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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Samuel Insull's gigantic utility empire began to crack up (TIME, April 18 et seq.), people thought the bankers would keep the Dean of Utility Operators to help them salvage the wreckage. But last week 73-year-old Samuel Insull resigned from the chairmanship of his three finest operating properties, Commonwealth Edison Co., Peoples Gas, Light & Coke Co., Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois. Said he: "Due regard for my health necessitates my retirement. . . ." He also re-signed as one of the three receivers of Middle West Utilities, subject to court approval. But La Salle & Wall Streets, noting...
...hope of catching a great big Democratic bear with its paws all sticky with short-selling honey, Senator Peter Norbeck's Banking & Currency Committee last week resumed its investigation of buying & selling practices on U. S. stock exchanges (TIME, April 25, et seq.). John Jacob Raskob was on the witness stand. Witness Raskob quietly sought to prove that his principal business is "trying to make good Democrats out of misguided Republicans," not being a big bad Bear...
Robert Stanley Dollar, son of the late Capt. Robert Dollar, was elected president of United States Lines Co, of Nevada, successor company to Paul Wadsworth Chapman's United States Lines, Inc. (TIME, Aug. 17, et seq.). The new U. S. Lines was backed by the Dollar-Dawson-Roosevelt-International Mercantile Marine interests. Although Mr. Dollar will be president of the company as originally intended (business matters made him delay his election, William F. Humphrey, attorney for Herbert Fleishhacker temporarily took the post) the active management will be in the hands of Roosevelt Line officers: Philip Albright, Small Franklin, Kermit...
...light. The 100 artist contributors make an almost perfect score of hits in the great game called "Understanding America." Drawings by Peter Arno, Otto Soglow, other New Yorker artists; photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Anton Bruehl; paintings by George Bellows, Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keefe, Morris Kantor, Charles Burchfield et al. are intermingled with sculptural figures, early American paintings to make a vivid tout ensemble...
Esley Stebbins: I tell ye they're mine, durn et...