Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...directorate will be one immediate result of the transaction. The Toledo purchasers were headed by George M. Jones, wealthy head of Toledo's Ohio Savings Bank and Trust Co. Also included was C.O. Miniger, head of Toledo's Electric Auto-Lite Co. Both Mr. Miniger and Banker Jones have long been Willys-Overland directors. The sale was accompanied by rumors of merger with Nash and Packard, though Packard has a long anti-merger tradition...
...Long has John North Willys of Toledo been a Big Automotive Man. He speaks French and English fluently, has often discoursed upon the automobile business, upon U. S. business in general. He contributed $25,000 to the Hoover campaign fund (Postmaster General Brown is a fellow townsman) and he was "responsible" for an additional $125,000. He has been "mentioned" for Ambassador to France, Japan, Turkey. After the War, when King Albert of Belgium visited Toledo as guest of Brand Whitlock, a fleet of Willys-Knights received the royal party. When a newsman in an Oldsmobile attempted to tag along...
...banks all alike, wondered how the State Banking Department had permitted Clarke Bros, to get into such a dreadful condition. Explanation lay in the fact that Clarke Bros., unsupervised, belonged to that class of banking institutions known as "private bankers" which do not have to be supervised as long as they do not describe themselves as "banks," do not accept deposits that at any time run under $500,? do not transmit money or negotiate notes. The $500 minimum deposit regulation (passed in 1914) is supposed to keep widows, orphans and other "small" depositors out of such banking houses. Present...
General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, long of beard, lame of leg, empty of right sleeve, arrived in the U. S. for the first time since 1923 to attend, in Baltimore, the annual convention of the Rainbow (42nd) Division which was under his command when he broke the German offensive in the crucial Battle of Champagne (July 1918). Historians recalled that both General Gouraud's legs and one arm were riddled in Gallipoli. Surgeons said the arm would heal in three months. The General asked how soon he could return to the front if the arm were...
...Each had won four of the eight meets preceding. Yale-Harvard was doubly pleased to win the ninth. Of the twelve events, Oxford-Cambridge took first place in only four - 120-yard high hurdle, 880-yard run, running broad jump, running high jump. Big stars were two Yale men, long Sid Kieselhorst, little Charlie Engle, each with two firsts. Worried were the Britishers as they left Cambridge, Mass., afterward to prepare for a meet the next Saturday with Princeton-Cornell, at Travers Island. Westchester Co., N. Y. A loss would be their first against the Princeton-Cornell combination...