Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 1 and 12,000 during 1929. Its president, A. M. Andrews, is a director in Hupmobile Motor Car Corp., its vice president and designer, W. J. Muller, is an engineer with the Edward G. Budd Manfacturing Co. (auto bodies), and one of the directors is Vice President Frederick W. Gardner of Gardner Motor Co., Inc. This personnel, coupled with the announcement that the car will be built in Cleveland and in St. Louis plants, resulted in the surmise that the "plants" are the old Cleveland-Chandler plant (recently bought by Hupp) in Cleveland and the Gardner plant...
...five representatives of the University who are members of this Antarctic expedition are Dr. Bradford Coman '20, Medical Director of the party, J. D. Ganahl '25, Frederick Crockett '30, N. D. Vaughan '30, and E. E. Goodale '30, dog drivers...
...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...
...with its corollary, confiscation, was clearly posed. The O'Fallon went into court to fight the I. C. C.'s order. The great railroads of the land clustered about the midget line in friendly fashion. St. Louis' lawyer Daniel N. Kirby represented the O'Fallon, Frederick H. Wood of Manhattan's famed law firm of Cravath de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, represented the big-brother carriers. The I. C. C. accepted the challenge, named Chicago's Walter L. Fisher, Taft-time Secretary of the Interior, to fight its legal battle. Before a Federal Court...
...retirement of Frederick Freeman Proctor, Manhattan lost its oldest vaudeville tycoon. In the early '90s, Mr. Proctor went into partnership with the late Charles Frohman, and from this agreement resulted the famed old Charles Frohman Stock Company. In 1893, the Proctor 23rd Street Theatre (then up town) inaugurated continuous (10 a. m.-11 p. m.) performances. Before entering the vaudeville business, Mr. Proctor ran an unsuccessful Ten-Twenty-Thirty melodrama chain, and before that toured Europe as a circus acrobat. He was born in Dexter, Me., and began his career in the extremely unhistrionic capacity of errand...