Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Comparable, in the drug field, to Stand ard Brands of General Foods in the food field. Drug, Inc. has back of it no J. P. Morgan, no E. F. Hutton. Its central name has been Louis K. Liggett, board chairman and founder of L. K. Liggett Co. and United Drug Co. Beginning his merchandising career as a traveling salesman for John Wanamaker, Mr. Liggett soon went into business for himself, making and selling headache powders that sold three for a quarter. The headache powders were not very successful, however, as people only had one headache at a time and were...
...every name in Directors of the United States appears in Who's Who. Directors vary from smalltime politicians on the boards of backwoods construction companies to tycoons on billion dollar corporations. Unique among U. S. Directors is George Fisher Baker Jr. who is on four billion dollar corporations: General Motors, General Electric, U. S. Steel, American Tel. & Tel. Last week while his Tel. & Tel. and General Electric were in the midst of a 23 and a 25 point rise, unique Director Baker did something which surprised his conservative stockholders, about half of whom are women. The board, including Thomas...
...General Earnings. Estimators figured that the operating net income for all U. S. railroads for the first half of 1929 was at the rate of annual earnings of 6.11% of railroad valuation (by the roads), whereas the same figure for corresponding 1928 period was at the annual rate of 4.78% on valuation...
...Paul Shoup was a Southern Pacific ticket agent and freight clerk; at 31 he was assistant general freight agent with headquarters at Portland. Then (1906) came the San Francisco fire and with this first great emergency his first great opportunity. For the late great E. H. Harriman arrived in San Francisco in the wake of the fire and Mr. Shoup assisted him in relief work. So helpful was Mr. Shoup that there is a popular fable that he was a Harriman protege. It was, however, during the Southern Pacific's post-Harriman period that Mr. Shoup really rose...
...Bohemian Club of San Francisco was founded in 1872 as a club for artists, dramatists, musicians, authors and persons appreciative of the arts. Among the membership of 2000 are David S. Jordan, Lieutenant-General Hunter Liggett, John Masefield, Edwin Markham, E. H. Sothern, William Howard Taft, David Warfield, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Ignace Paderewski. Honorary members include Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden: Sir Hubert Brand. Rear Admiral, British Navy; Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. On the Russian River, near Monte Rio, is located Bohemian Grove, where Bohemians gather each summer. On the August Saturday night nearest...