Word: f
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then spoke Secretary Dwight F. Davis, who said he came at the request of the President and to indicate the Administration's sympathy with flood sufferers. "The Mississippi can and must be controlled," said Secretary Davis. "The nation whose engineers built the Panama Canal despite seemingly insuperable obstacles can solve the . . . problem of flood control." He added that the solution was a matter for the next session of Congress to determine...
...Upshaw, long a professional orator, listened admiringly to General Superintendent F. Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League, who told all the Wets to "go out in the Atlantic Ocean, build an island of your beer kegs. . . . This Governor of New York," continued Mr. McBride, "who nullified state rights by signing a bill to repeal his state enforcement act, wants to transfer his activities to the White House. Are we going...
...series of news items from 1911 to 1925, indicating the preference of young Thomas F. Manville Jr. and his sister Lorraine for cabarets, footlights, chorus girls and comedians, predicted a business event of last week-the passage of the H. S. Johns-Manville Co. of Manhattan, $32,000,000 manufacturer of asbestos and magnesia products, from the family that has built it up since 1858 to bankers who will run it now that there are no suitable Manvilles left...
Thomas Franklyn Manville Sr., father of young Thomas F. and Lorraine, chairman of the company's board, died in 1925. His brother, Hiram E. Manville, continued as president but looked forward to retirement. J. P. Morgan & Co., seeing a big earner with no funded debt, bought a large (many say a controlling) interest and last week it was announced that two Morgan partners (Francis D. Bartow, George Whitney) would become Manville directors, that Hiram E. Manville would be replaced as president by the man whom J. P. Morgan & Co. found to rebuild Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago mail order house...
...Johns-Manville president is Theodore F. Merseles, 63. He has been, successively and with much success, a railroader, bicycle maker, cloak and suit mail order man. In 1921, when the price slump had dragged Montgomery Ward & Co. (everything by mail, from engagement rings to fox-traps) into a nine million dollar deficit, he was called in as its president. The 1922 balance sheet showed profits of $4,562,607. He revolutionized the buying and inventory control, tripled gross sales in five years (to some 200 millions in 1926), and made record profits of $11,358,498. When he resigned...