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Harassed by lawsuits, investigations and public suspicion, Howard Colwell Hopson, 53, resigned as officer and director of all Associated Gas & Electric units. Though usually listed in Associated reports as vice president & treasurer, the bald, roly-poly utilitarian with the flair for corporate obscurantism was the system's undisputed boss. He, not President John Isaac Mange, was the quarry in the Washington manhunts staged last summer by rival and Senate inquisitors (TIME, July...
Ostensible reason for Mr. Hopson's retirement was poor health. Testifying in Washington, an Associated lobbyist once declared: "I've been told by physicians that if he ever developed a sore throat he would choke to death." However, the fact that this year Mr. Hopson has spent only a month in his Manhattan office is probably traceable to a devout desire to dodge process servers. Among Associated suits now pending are a mail-fraud case and a stockholders' action to recover some $1,000,000 allegedly milked from the system by a Hopson personal holding company...
...will precede the dance, which will last from 9 till 12 o'clock. Further plans will be made public next week by the dance committee, whose chairman is Harold E. Jahn '36. Other members are: William Lawrence '37, Edward L. Barnes '38, Rutger B. Miller, Jr. '36, Albert W. Hopson, Jr. '37, Arthur W. Nelson '38, Charles E. Tuttle, Jr. '37, John B. Barney '37, Lawrence N. Stevens '36, and Albert Harkness...
Married. Bernard B. Robinson, 42, Chicago securities salesman, lobbyist for Associated Gas & Electric Co. who told the Senate investigating committee that his chief, roly-poly Howard Colwell Hopson, had "a fine disposition" (TIME, Aug. 19); and Anna Kremer Young, daughter of J. Bruce Kremer, Montana lawyer-politician; in Reno...
...member, you questioned me at some length on the subject of whether my services had been billed to the member companies of the Associated Gas & Electric System at the amount received by me, or whether there had been a ''loading" by the so-called "Hopson companies" to cover overhead expenses, office rents etc. You had apparently been advised, that although there was no such "loading" in the case of charges for my services during 1934 and 1935, that the services had been charged for in 1933 at 2 ½ times the amount received by me. In the absence...