Word: gerard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month Gerard Barnes Lambert, retired lord of Listerine, was made president of Gillette Safety Razor Co. (TIME, May 11). Last week a Gillette stockholders meeting was called for June 10, at which time an interesting sporting proposition will be voted upon. The essence of the proposition is that President Lambert will receive a bonus rather than a salary. If Gillette earns less than $5 a share ($10,000,000) during any year, he will be paid nothing. If it earns $5, he will get 20,000 shares of stock. If the earnings exceed $6, he will be given another...
...Gerard Barnes Lambert, son of the founder of Lambert Pharmacal Co. and its onetime president (1923-28), was made president of Gillette Safety Razor Co., succeeding Henry Jaques Gaisman who becomes chairman. Mr. Gaisman has apparently worked his way to dominance in Gillette since the merger with Auto Strop of which he was chairman, for John Edward Aldred, previously chairman and one of the premerger Gillette group, last week resigned. Mr. Lambert's election was a surprise, for since leaving Lambert Co. he has done nothing to indicate he cared to enter the business of razor-making. His interests have...
...better formula is known for exploiting an autobiography than to provoke a squabble between the autobiographer and some other celebrity. Even the well-told story of so florid a subject as Anthony Herman Gerard ("Uncle Tony'') Fokker* would have created no great splash when it appeared last week had not the book contained some acid comments by Fokker about Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, and had not an astute press-agent pre-advised newsmen of those comments. The book made headlines last week for the passages in a scant ten pages...
...Duces (Gerard Smith, Cyril Harrison, Lieut. McDonald Jones): the National Indoor Polo championship, beating the Optimists (Raymond Guest, Winston Guest, Stewart Iglehart) 8 to 5 in a rough, fast game in Manhattan in which Winston Guest, outdoor internationalist, scored six goals, two of which were wiped out by fouls...
...Government of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina the sum of more than half a million florins ($220,000) was left by Her Majesty's loyal subject Banker Johan Gerard Daniel Waterler with two stipulations...