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...Senate against the dry Republicans; in New York because the drys are expected to put up a candidate against Senator Wadsworth, who is not dry enough to suit them; and in Pennsylvania, where Representative Vare, wet boss of the Philadelphia machine, is expected to run against Senator Pepper and Gifford Pinchot, both drys...
Last week they had heard their new President (quiet, deft Walter Sherman Gifford) announce with pleasure that 57,000 employes* (with an average of 10 shares each) would share with the 362,179 shareholders of the company in the $107,405,046 net profits of 1925. This amounts to $11.79 a share on the $911,181,400 average stock outstanding, against the $11.31 on the $805,145,900 of 1924. The company's business has been prospering steadily. Gross income in 1925 was $180,458,912 against $154,082,836 the previous year. Dividends at 9% just declared total...
...stock holdings in these companies now aggregate $1,027,448,629 ($991,834,103 in 1924). Total assets on the parent company's books show $1,645,565,373 ($1,478,147,221 in 1924). Over this vast system presides a comparatively young man?Walter Sherman Gifford. When he was graduated from Harvard in 1905 he became Assistant Secretary and Treasurer of the Western Electric Co. at Chicago. The Bell System for years has been encouraging alert college graduates to enter its organization. Thorough courses in telephonic practices are at the disposal of everyone. Students advance as their abilities mature...
James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, was frequently mentioned last week in Washington as a candidate for the governorship of Pennsylvania to succeed Gifford Pinchot. The Pennsylvania Senators, (Pepper and Reed) and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon are understood to be supporting him. Mrs. Mary Key McBlair, a retired Government clerk, 72 years of age, lives in Washington. She has a pension of $20, a month because of Government service. Last week Representative E. Hart Fenn of Connecticut introduced a bill to give her a pension of $1,200 a year, saying that she is in destitute circumstances. Mrs. McBlair...
Like other steelmakers President Eugene Gifford Grace of the Corporation is optimistic for 1926 business conditions. He reported...