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...birthday party Pilot Ovington was to fly the mail again, this time in a commodious trimotored Fokker of American Airways, Inc., from United Airport, Burbank, Calif., near his Santa Barbara home. With him in the plane, besides a half dozen bigwigs, was to be former Postmaster-General Hitchcock. They were to fly to Tucson, Ariz, where Mr. Hitchcock is owner and publisher of the Daily Citizen...
Died, Henry C. Bohack, 66, president of H. C. Bohack Co., Inc., a chain of 740 grocery stores; of heart disease; in Kew Gardens, L. I. Born the son of a German farmer, he went to the U. S. when he was 17, got a job clerking in a grocery store for $7 per month & board. In three years he saved enough to go into business with a friend, whose sister he later married. He opened the first store under his own name in 1887 at 1291 Broadway, Brooklyn. It is still in operation. In later years he told...
Died. William H. Wattis, president of Six Companies Inc., the syndicate which is building Hoover Dam; of cancer; in San Francisco...
...deals with what Mr. Flynn thinks are corporate practices. Such famed cases are cited as the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad scandals of 1925, the St. Louis & San Francisco revelations of 1913, the Good year Tire & Rubber reorganization in 1921. Modern examples are the Bethlehem bonus system, the Loft, Inc. management troubles in 1930, the Bank of United States failure and the fall of Banker Rogers Caldwell. Cyrus Stephen Eaton's recently shaken corporate pyra mid is also discussed adversely...
...idea of a new and modern Waldorf-Astoria is credited to the mind of Louis J. Horowitz, chairman of Thompson-Starrett Co., Inc., builders. The present board of directors includes nine men who can be identified with Thompson-Starrett. Among them is Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone & Co., one of the firms that sold the Waldorf's bond issue. It was he who drove the first rivet (gold) and troweled the final stone. Also on the directorate is tall, aloof Lucius Boomer, 52, president of Waldorf-Astoria Corp. Mr. Boomer is an oldtime hotel man with wide experience...