Word: g
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...join him in establishing Phelps, Dodge & Co. This latter company was extinguished only in 1917 when it merged with its subsidiary, the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. to become the Phelps Dodge Corp. During all this time it has remained under the management of Anson G. Phelps' descendants: William Earle Dodge (junior), his grandson, Cleveland Hoadley Dodge, his great-grandson, and Cleveland E. Dodge, his great-great-grandson...
...Other Anson G. Phelps descendants include: Anson Phelps Stokes, former Secretary of Vale University; Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, architect of the firm of Howells & Stokes; James Graham Phelps Stokes, who was a presidential elector on the Populist ticket in 1904, married to and divorced from Rose Pastor, social worker: Harold Phelps Stokes, newspaper man and former secretary to Herbert Hoover. Ansonia, Connecticut, is a namesake of family's founder...
Immediate subjects of presidential talk en route to Wiesbaden were, of course, the mechanics of the Opel-G. M. deal. Every German motorcar maker knows that Opel's cheap ($650) standardized car last year controlled exactly half the German market (45,000 cars out of 90,000 total production). Yet G. M. executives, pondering Chevrolet's enormous success in the U.S., talked of scrapping the Opel, offering Germans a still cheaper car. Perhaps it might be the Chevrolet itself. Perhaps it might be a new make, lighter, with only 5 h. p., to sell at 1,800 marks...
...banker. President is Robert W. Woodruff, who came to Coca-Cola from Cleveland's White Motor Co., where he was vice president and general manager. Popular thirst for Coco-Cola is apparently unabated; pleasing are its prospects for 1929. "Died on -, at Wesley Memorial Hospital, Asa G. Candler. Funeral obsequies will be observed at his late residence, 1428 Ponce de Leon Avenue, at 11 in the forenoon on . Interment will be at West View, private. H. M. Patterson and son in charge...
...three years ago, wrote Asa G. Candler, composing his own funeral notice with blank dates that last week were filled in. Precise, meticulous, he also left instructions that he should be buried in full dress. He was 77; he died after two years of illness following the paralytic stroke from which he never recovered...