Word: humphreys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale's right end and captain, Lawrence Morgan Kelley, makes a specialty of catching passes. Last week, in the second period, with the score 7-to-0 on Wilson's touchdown and Humphrey's conversion, he was deprived of one good chance to practice it when Yale's ace passer, Clint Frank, dropping back to throw, was tackled on Harvard's 35-yd. line. On the next play, Frank dropped back again and threw a long pass. Kelley raced down the field but caused the Yale stands to give an incredulous groan by just missing...
...shares of Tide Water Associated stock.* With this move the Tide Water directors apparently grew suspicious of Mr. Getty's intentions. At the next Tide Water stockholders' meeting, over Mr. Getty's opposition, an amendment was passed which changed the terms of directors. President William Francis Humphrey and three others were re-elected for three-year terms, biggest Stockholder Getty for a single year. At the 1936 stockholders' meeting, Mr. Getty tried to secure the repeal of the three-year term for directors and defeat two other amendments sponsored by the management which he considered inimical...
...tugboat tootings in the harbor, two score small fry and a few big stockholders gathered at No. 17 Battery Place last week to approve or vote down the merger of Tide Water Oil Co. and Associated Oil Co. into a new Tide Water Associated Oil Co. William Francis Humphrey, stout, double-chinned president of Tide Water Associated who is also head of San Francisco's famed Olympic-Club, called the meeting to order, clipped through parliamentary procedure in approved police court fashion...
...form of the merger agreement. Disapproval was voiced of 1) the directors' rights to determine conversion privileges and price of 873,000 shares of unissued preferred stock, and 2) "deprivation of rights which should belong to the stockholder," namely, the ability to vote annually on directors. Unperturbed, President Humphrey queried: "Does that mean you are voting against the merger, Mr. Rowland?" Answer: "We're not voting...
...stockholder on the other side of the room asked: "How much preferred and common stock do the directors own?" President Humphrey, pointing to a big stack of ledgers under the table, replied: "That's difficult to say. The books are here for inspection." Adjusting his horn-rimmed glasses, he read "these figures from our treasurer": Tide Water's estimated net income for the year, $11,000,000. Available for common stock dividends, $1.26 per share. Last year the profits on common were 73? per share...