Word: ince
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgan & Co. answered an appeal for aid from the "New York State War Veterans Association Inc." with a $50 check. After the check had been cashed Morgan officials investigated, found they had been duped by a petty swindler...
...especially when he is a member of a Senate Investigating Committee. Last week a troupe of Detroit bankers were lined up against a wall of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee room while Inquisitor Pecora began writing Chapter 7 of Senate Revelations-the story of the Guardian Detroit Union Group, Inc. First witness was Robert Owen Lord, president of the Group which owned 23 Michigan banks headed by big Guardian National Bank of Commerce and which foundered last February with $90,000,000 in deposits still tied up. Mr. Lord brought into the committee room a banking atmosphere different from that...
...directors had no difficulty in deciding which of those men should succeed Mr. Legge. They named Addis Emmet MeKinstry, 63, who had worked for the company and its predecessor since he was 16, as stock boy, agent, district salesmanager, plant superintendent, vice president. ¶Hahn Department Stores, Inc., which lately parted with its founder, Lew Hahn (TIME, Aug. 21), last week parted with Paul Quattlander, its president since 1931. He pointed out in his third letter of resignation that the profit & loss account of Hahn Stores would be $2,850,000 better off this year than last, that "real earnings...
Author Robert Winsmore is middleaged, fat, a member of the Author's League of America, Inc. He has contributed stories to the Post for the last five years. Author Gardner is in his early thirties. He began to write in the summer of 1931, after a training in Wall Street. "On a Lady's Advice" was his first story for Collier's. Last week Author Winsmore brought a plagiarism suit against Author Gardner and Collier's for $100,000 on the grounds that "the infringing story has ruined his market for that type of story...
...since the death of Ivar Kreuger Sweden's No. 1 tycoon. Mr. Wenner-Gren was not discouraged by his failure to sell his Elektrolux (spelled with a c in U. S.) refrigerator to Mr. Sloan. Mr. Wrenner-Gren eventually got his asking price when he sold to Servel, Inc. the U. S., Canadian and Cuban rights. Through this deal he became Servel's largest stockholder and later a director. After a series of reorganizations Servel emerged in 1928 as a $14,000,000 concern backed by the Brady interests. It makes gasoline engines, truck bodies, mechanical refrigerators...