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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week it was a good guess that President Davis would have a good job for such a good executive. They met at N. A. M.'s Congress of Industry and had a good time together...
...Last week Mrs. Sullivan's own collection of Cézannes, van Goghs, Toulouse-Lautrecs, Gauguins, Picassos, Derains, Modiglianis, Soutines and the rest was sold at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries. It was the most important auction of modern art in a decade, and nearly every outstanding dealer and collector in the U. S. was there-except Mrs. Sullivan herself. Day before she had died quietly in her sleep...
...Society, it can go to the opening of the opera. If it wants to see movie stars, it can hang on the ropes at any Hollywood opening. But if it wants to see tycoons, the place to look is at the annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers. Last week the heavy cream of tycoonery floating on a Grade A selection of 2,500 substantial U. S. businessmen poured through the lobbies of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria between sessions of N. A. M.'s 44th three-day Congress of American Industry...
...Still, minority stockholders were not satisfied. Once they set up a fuss at their annual meeting at the firm's Chicopee Falls, Mass, plant over the $12,000 annual fee directors had voted their chairman. Next year the directors retaliated by holding the stockholders' meeting in Delaware. Last week, however, it looked as if the controversy would soon be ended...
...cash and 109,981 shares of U. S. Rubber Common, holders of Fisk's 34,738 preferred shares to get $110 a share cash (call price), holders of its 439,923 common shares $6.75 a share cash plus 1 share of U. S. Rubber common (last week priced about...