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...machinery in Westmoreland's dingy red-brick building grew old, became outmoded. Last summer Interstate closed the mill. Faced with joblessness, the 500 employes decided to take it over, run it as a cooperative. They borrowed on their homes, cars, signed quick notes, and incorporated as the Hancock Knitting Mills...
...source of great satisfaction to find that Mr. Wright will deliver a lecture in Boston at Hancock Hall, the evening of January 24th. It is difficult to say whether or not he will again stir the audience with bursts of inspirational fire the way he did eight years ago, when he last appeared in Boston in the role of speaker. At any rate, it will probably be his last appearance in this part of the country, for being close to seventy now, he will undoubtedly return to his little experimental colony in Arizona and continue to produce theories and buildings...
Quick to cry "Watch!" were the preferred stockholders. Said a Wall Street brokerage house: "Preferred stockholders get nothing in return for their sacrifices; common stockholders make no sacrifices in return for their benefits." President G. W. Cox of Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. did what no less potent stockholder could afford. He sent out far & wide among preferred stockholders, lined up opposition votes as far afield as the Midwest. Many another big insurance company, holder of Curtis preferred, girded...
...Hampshire: Robert A. Bastille, Hancock, New Hampshire, John W. Hewitt, Enfield, New Hampshire, and Chester W. Jenks, Jr., Manchester, New Hampshire. New Jersey: Lawrence P. Hall, Jr., Moorestown, New Jersey, and Oliver R. B. Stalter, Newark, New Jersey...
...also chairman of U. S. Steel. Serving with him were no Laborites, no Little Businessmen, no Janizaries. Instead, there were such Big Businessmen as A. T. & T.'s Walter Gifford, General Motors' John Lee Pratt, Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood, Manhattan Banker John Milton Hancock. Here, to the shaken Janizariat, was sinister evidence that Franklin Roosevelt, in advance of war, had turned elsewhere for counsel. When Louis Johnson announced that Mr. Stettinius as chairman of W. R. B. would wield vast administrative powers in wartime, the evidence seemed to be overwhelming: the New Deal would...