Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brother Frank heads F. H. Peavey & Co., world's largest grain elevator system...
...other from Cleveland to Zanesville, Ohio, the two crossing at Brewster, Ohio. The Van Sweringens, who consider the Wheeling & Lake Erie a desirable unit in their proposed Fourth Trunk Line, have acquired control of the road through stock held by the Nickel Plate and Alleghany Corp.* But Frank Taplin, largest single stockholder and leader of a powerful minority group of Wheeling & Lake Erie stockholders opposed to Van Sweringen denomination, has also a Trunk Line plan. Less ambitious than the Van Sweringens, the Taplins plan what is primarily a fast freight line between the Great Lakes and Baltimore; to them...
...voted to adjourn the meeting until August 1, at which date the legality of their Wheeling holdings will presumably have been settled. After the motion to adjourn had been carried, the Van Sweringen representatives left the meeting, but the Taplins continued with a meeting of their own. They elected Frank Taplin president, in place of Van-man William McKinley Duncan, and threw out all the Vanmen directors, including Frederick H. Ecker, Metropolitan Life's new president. Director Leonor Fresnel Loree, head of Delaware & Hudson, was also dispossessed...
...Frank D. Comerford, a vice president of I. P. & P., told the Commission: "I thought it unwise for our company to invest in newspapers. ... I told Graustein [Archibald Robertson Graustein, I. P. & P. president] so in private . . . but never said so in a Board of Directors meeting." In Manhattan and Richmond, Va., two more side-lights developed last week to heighten the power-paper investigation spectacle...
Douglas Fairbanks, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, presided in Los Angeles last week when the Academy's annual prizes were awarded. Among the winners : Acting - Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven) ; Emil Jannings (The Way of All Flesh, The Last Command) ; Directing - Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven) ; Engineering Effects - Roy Pomeroy (Wings) ; Outstanding Picture - Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. (Wings). Charles Chaplin was specially rewarded for being writer, actor, director, producer of The Circus...