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...Alfred Emanuel Smith listed seven. Leading those who sit at boardroom tables of subsidiaries and affiliates within one complex industrial empire was Albert John County, vice president in charge of finance and corporate relations of the Pennsylvania R.R. with 121-down five from last year. Close behind was Henry Latham Doherty of Cities Service Co. with 114. Third, with 110, was Oilman Doherty's alter ego and legal prime minister, William Alton ("Pete") Jones, tall, trim executive chairman of Henry L. Doherty & Co., who last fortnight was playing handsome host to distinguished guests at Mr. Doherty's newly...
...Metropolitan Club dinner all but 15% of the old association's membership agreed to join the new one. Dissenters, whom Mr. Carlisle hopes may later reconsider: Henry Latham Doherty's Cities Service, the Harley Lyman Clarke interests' Utilities Power & Light, Howard Colwell Hopson's Associated Gas & Electric, Frank Theodore Hulswit's American Commonwealths Power. Unlike the N. E. L. A., the Edison Institute will not be open to manufacturers...
...fifth annual races, run off last week at Miami Municipal Airport, had been threatened by Depression. Prize money was reduced, few cups were donated. There was no free gasoline for contestants. The show needed an angel. Up stepped bristle-bearded Henry Latham Doherty, utility tycoon who lately bought swank Miami hotels and beach clubs. Alert to the promotion value of the meet he posted $2,500 and a cup for an amateur pilot's race from Daytona Beach to Miami, at the end of a pilgrimage sponsored by the U. S. Amateur Air Pilots' Association. Also he invited...
Oilman Henry Latham Doherty, like many another tycoon, finds it pleasant to bask his frail body in the warm Florida sunshine. But Florida no longer represents just rest to Mr. Doherty. For 15 months he has owned the big Miami Biltmore...
...notch last week went the big bidding for possession of Richfield Oil Co. of California, an insolvent company deeply entrenched in the rich Pacific Coast gasoline market. The bidding has been between Harry Ford Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp. and Standard Oil Co. of California, with Henry Latham Doherty's Cities Service Co. (a big Richfield stockholder) sitting ominously silent at the table. Bid No. 1 was last June when Consolidated offered $18,000,000 in securities. Standard offered $17,000,000, believing the greater popularity of its securities made the bid more attractive. Then in July...