Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harriman-Lehman group in rounding up proxies from the many substantial stockholders known to them. Banker Harriman himself had begun to withdraw from the aviation scene. Last month he resigned as Avco board chairman, was succeeded by his friend Banker Lehman (TIME, Oct. 31). About the same time Harold Ellstner Talbott Jr. resigned the North American Aviation chairmanship. His place was filled by George Newell Armsby, chairman of Bancamerica-Blair Corp. which sponsored North American. Guessers everywhere tried to connect the two resignations with the presence of Mr. Cord. But, as for Banker Harriman, the explanation lay in his newly...
...repeal investigated the punch, found it strictly nonalcoholic. Afterwards Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller III left for a month's honeymoon in Bermuda.* secretly boarded the S. S. American Legion, on which was a party of newshawks on vacation. Reception guests: Henry Ford. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, Harold Fowler McCormick. Chase National Bank President Winthrop Williams Aldrich. Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont...
Ever since Harold Stirling (''Mike") Vanderbilt put up the Vanderbilt Cup for contract bridge teams of four, he has been ambitious to have his own name engraved on it among the winners. Last week, for the first time in five years, he had a good chance. The famed Four Horsemen of bridge-Hal Sims, Willard S. Karn, David Burnstine and Oswald (''Ossie") Jacoby, who won the cup a year ago-were split up. Mr. Vanderbilt was playing with Sims, Karn and Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz, onetime member of Ely Culbertson's Bridge World team which...
...which earned him his contract, a little slam and the first big swing for his team, 1,430 points. In a sense, it was the hand that decided the match. As the Burnstine team fell behind, they gambled for long chances, fell behind even further. After five hours play, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt and his teammates had won the Cup, with 5,845 points, an average of more than 200 points a hand...
...Harold Elstner Talbott Jr. resigned as chairman of North American Aviation...