Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Church, Memphis millionaire, dictator of the "Lincoln Belt" which stretches darkly from Missouri, north and south, through Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio. Toward the close of the 1928 campaign all but six of the 25 leading Negro newspapers were calling for Smith's election. Puzzled and worried, Nominee Hoover summoned Millionaire Church to Washington, heard his grievances against Col. Mann and the "lily-whites," spoke a few soothing words. In the last week of the campaign most of the rebellious journals, at Church's command, changed front and Hooverized vociferously. But with Col. Mann still holding forth...
Fifteen rounds having been fought (TIME, Jan. 28 et seq.); the fight to a finish between John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and Col. Robert Wright Stewart, minority stockholder and board-chairman, respectively, of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, continued last week as follows...
...Stewart and his board of directors declared a 50% stock dividend a $1.12½ cash dividend (including a so-cent extra dividend), thus calling attention to their ability to put fat profits into the hands of the stockholders. During the brief speculative flurry which followed, Standard Oil of Indiana achieved the stock market (paper) value of a billion-dollar corporation...
...specific tasks which Charles Evans Hughes will perform for John Davison Rockefeller Jr. as special counsel in the fight to oust Col. Robert Wright Stewart as Chairman of the Board of Standard Oil of Indiana are not likely to tax his skill. Many another lawyer could? and probably will?attend to the technical points involved in the battle of proxies. But no other lawyer could bring to the Rockefeller cause such enormous prestige, such widespread confidence...
Twelve rounds having been fought (TIME, Jan. 28, Feb. 4), the fight to a finish between John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and Col. Robert Wright Stewart, minority stockholder and board-chairman, respectively, of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, continued last week as follows...