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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hovey. In 1900 he went to work for Kidder, Peabody & Co., and in 1910 left to form his own firm. He is closely tied to the firm's tradition, for his sister married Edwin Sibley Webster, son of the late Frank G. Webster and now president of Stone & Webster, Inc. His father was the late William Alfred Hovey, editor of the Boston Transcript. His grandfather was Charles Hovey, fiery Boston abolitionist. Chandler Hovey winters at Chestnut Hill, Boston, points with pride to some large China vases bearing paintings of Napoleon by Artist Jacques Louis David...
Partner Hovey's nephew, Edwin Sibley Webster Jr., 31, was also made a partner. This young man began his career slowly. After graduating from Harvard in 1923 and from Harvard Business School in 1925, he went to work for his father in Stone & Webster, Inc., first on a construction job in Puget Sound, then on a Florida bus line, then with a power company in Virginia. From those occupations he went to Boston to be a messenger boy in the Stone & Webster Building for a while, then entered the legal department of the firm. He was a vice president when...
Gramophone's big rival is Columbia Graphophone Co., Ltd. which assumed control of Columbia Phonograph Co. Inc. of America when that company was formed in 1924 out of the wreckage of Columbia Graphophone Manufacturing Co. Columbia Graphophone also does a world-wide business; not least among its subsidiaries are Nipponophone Co., Ltd. of Japan and France's Compagnie Générale des Machines Parlantes...
...last week's plan, shareholders of Gramophone and Columbia Graphophone will be given stock in a new holding company.* As a bonus they will be given stock in Columbia Phonograph Co. Inc. of America which henceforth will apparently shift for itself. Dominant stockholder in the new company will be Radio Corp. of America, holding 30%, of the holding company's stock...
...Woman, Down out of the sky into Akron one day last week came a young woman with two frozen toes, crackling ears and blood in her mouth. She was Miss Frankie Renner, 30, secretary-treasurer of Robbins Flying Service and of Aviation College Inc. Her physical condition did not make her unhappy for it was merely the result of climbing in a Waco biplane to an apparent altitude of 33,000 ft.?perhaps 3,000 ft. higher than Ruth Nichols' climb last fortnight, and a new women's record...