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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stubbornly refused to tell his story to reporters, despite the friendly coaxing of Commander Rosendahl. A welterweight boxer out for the All-Navy championship, he said: "I'll have to see my manager before I talk." His manager sold the story to the highest bidder, Hearst's Universal Service, Inc...
...Against Coca-Cola. Last week Lawyers Edward Sidney Rogers and James Fulton Hoge prepared to defend their big client, Coca-Cola Co., in two damage suits. More important of the two was an action of $5,000,000 brought by Loft, Inc., candymaker and seller. Loft charged that Coca-Cola attempted to interfere with a Loft contract to sell Pepsi-Cola in its stores, threatened to attack the value of Loft stock ($2.50 last week) if the company would not sell Coca-Cola, sent agents to Loft soda fountains to hurt Loft's business by slander and intimidations. Filing...
President of Fox for a long time was Harley Lyman Clarke, Chicago utilities tycoon (Utilities Power & Light), who startled filmdom when his General Theatres Equipment, Inc. gobbled control of Fox at a crucial point in its history. Last autumn Mr. Clarke was relieved of the presidency, made chairman. In his place was put his good friend Edward Richmond Tinker, also friendly with Chase National Bank (TIME, Nov. 30). Last week Mr. Tinker assumed the chairmanship and Mr. Clarke resigned, remaining as a director. With General Theatres in receivership, control of Fox now rests with Chase National rather than with...
...Radio, Columbia Phonograph Co., Inc. makes phonographs and records. Last week it announced that by early May it will be selling a radio of its own make. Said Columbia President Herman E. Ward, newly elected, "It may be a startling policy in American industry, but Columbia will defy the modern fetish of mass production. The receiving set we are now manufacturing . . . will create demand volume which we shall supply-that and no more...
...best." Not every pressroom foreman agrees with this proud motto of R. Hoe & Co., Inc., maker of presses since 1803. But the company's long history has been replete with startling achievements. The many presses it has sold make Hoe as synonymous for press as Gillette is for razor, Baldwin for locomotive, Colt for pistol. It was news last week when old R. Hoe & Co. bowed to the inevitable and passed into a receivership. Company officials blamed the decline in newspaper lineage, the fact that publishers are using their old presses to the limit, that "machinery is the last...