Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to such groups as the American Finance Conference and the National Automobile Dealers Association, extensive monopolistic coercion is practiced by General Motors Acceptance Corp., Commercial Credit Co. (which finances instalment sales for Chrysler), Commercial Investment Trust (for Nash, Hudson, Auburn, Studebaker) and C.I.T.'s subsidiary, Universal Credit Corp. (for Ford). Last year these four handled 75% of all new car financing (TIME, Nov. 22). According to the Department of Justice, their monopolistic methods cost the public $60,000,000. Having listened to evidence from 263 witnesses in Milwaukee, a Federal grand jury last week was ready to announce...
Summoned to the White House one day last week was Floyd Leslie Carlisle, chairman of not one but two of the country's great utility companies, Consolidated Edison and Niagara Hudson Power. President Roosevelt is not on intimate terms with any powermen but Mr. Carlisle's and the President's cordial dislike of each other is something of a record, dating as it does from pre-New Deal days, when Franklin Roosevelt was Governor of New York State, Mr. Carlisle's bailiwick. But now, with a Grade A business recession on his hands, the President, like...
...headline purposes this announcement was precisely what the President wanted. But its significance was precisely nil. Niagara Hudson and Consolidated Edison are intraState companies, unaffected by the Federal "death sentence" on utility holding companies, largely exempt from other sections of the Public Utility Act of 1935 and far from the madding competition of TVA. Moreover, Mr. Carlisle planned to spend the $112,000,000 anyway...
Died. Howard Earle Coffin, 64, cotton textile manufacturer, boomer of Georgia coastal resorts, onetime vice president of Hudson Motor Car Co. and member of the Wartime U. S. Aircraft Production Board; when a loaded rifle he was appar-ently cleaning for a deer-hunt went off; at Sea Island Beach...
...Cronkhite '38, Hudson Falls, New York; W. N. Dale '49, Clinton, New York; D. H. Davidson '39, Grasmere, New York; W. H. Felmeth '39, Elizabeth, New Jersey; J. J. Fernsler '40, Flushing, New York; R. B. Finn '39, Niagara Falls, New York; R. Fleischer '40, South Norwalk, Connecticut; R. S. Fogelman '40, Pompton Lakes, New Jersey; W. H. Glazier '39, Hartford, Connecticut; H. Harris '39, New York; H. E. Kirkby '40, Norwich, New York; M. Lichterman '39, Brooklyn, New York; S. L. Madey '40, Buffalo, New York; R. M. Meyers '38, Newark, New Jersey; E. Mitchell '40, Hartford, Connecticut...