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...Shares Bernard M. Baruch, financier..........4,000 Hernand Behn of I. T. & T........1,000 Sosthenes Belin. of I. T. & T............. 1,000 John J. Bernet, of C. & O. R. R ..............500 Cornelius N. Bliss ...............2,000 Claude K. Boettcher, Denver banker....... 1,000 Charles J. Bradley, of Erie R. R. ......... 500 Matthew Brush, financier ...........2,000 Edward G. Auckland, of N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. ................500 Floyd L. Carlisle, of N. Y. Edison Co..............2,000 Leon R. Clausen, of J. I. Case ...........500 Charles A. Corliss, of Lament, Corliss & Co. .............. 1,000 Patrick E. Crowley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Now It Is Told | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...licked, Wall Street did not know Sosthenes Behn. To his shrewd daring and persistent battling I. T. & T. owed its spectacular soar to success. He was now to prove himself a bad-weather pilot of extraordinary ability. He hacked expenses, pruned salaries, wrote down assets. With his able brother, Hernand, he worked furiously to increase the efficiency of Mackay-Postal, built five new radio stations on the Atlantic Coast alone. When the storm began to clear it was apparent that Sosthenes Behn had not only braced his towering electrical companies to stand it, but had actually increased the volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Behn Marches On | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

Awarded. To Hernand Behn, president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp., the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, by Pope Pius; to Psychiatrist Earl Danford Bond,.Philadelphia's $10,000 Bok prize for city service; to James Orr Elton, Anaconda Copper Mining Co. metallurgist, the 1933 James Douglas Medal, for improvements in smelting lead, zinc & silver; to Author Richmond Pearson Hobson, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for heroism in the Spanish-American War; to the University of Chicago's George Frederick & Gladys Henry Dick, the University of Edinburgh 1933 Cameron Prize, for discovering the scarlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 20, 1933 | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

Engaged. Louise Behn, daughter of President Hernand Behn of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.; and Irwin Augustus Powell, Manhattan socialite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 28, 1932 | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...Germany, but last week an alliance with them was already rumored. The biggest telephone rival is General Telephone & Electric Corp. of the U. S. and Great Britain, affiliated with Transamerica. The cosmopolitan Behn Brothers were born on the tiny West Indian island of St. Thomas, Sosthenes in 1882, Hernand in 1880. Both were schooled in Corsica and Paris. Sosthenes, the more aggressive of the two, went to Manhattan at the start of the century, grew a beard to look older than he was, went into the foreign banking trade. In 1906 both brothers took over their stepfather's Porto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ericsson to I. T. & T. | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

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