Word: lymans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp. jumped into the tangled affairs of Utilities Power & Light Corp. in 1935. an air of electricity has hung about everything connected with the $400,000,000 holding company and its pyramiding promoter, Harley Lyman Clarke. Since last autumn, when Promoter Clarke was edged out of the U. P. & L. presidency, the charges and counter-charges have mounted to high-tension voltage. Last week came the first legal payoff in the whole business. In Chicago, Federal Judge William Henry Holly approved a voluntary petition from the company for a 77B reorganization, issued...
...Harley Lyman Clarke continued to sputter on the sidelines last week after the 77B petition was accepted. Meanwhile Mr. Odium, holding 40% of the company's debt, prepared to take an active hand in remodeling the power pyramid into what the Public Utility Act of 1935 calls a "demonstrably useful" holding company...
Motor Products' income dropped rapidly to a $518,000 deficit in 1932. By 1934 the company was back in the black and last year's profits were $1,079,000. President of Motor Products since 1935 has been Antone Lyman Lott, 50, whose service with the company dates to its founding. A graduate of the University of Nebraska (Class of 1907) in electrical engineering, he got into selling 20 years ago, rose to become Motor Products' sales manager, later general manager. Where he will fit in the new setup has not been announced...
...over Thomas E. Jansen, Jr. '26, at one time runnerup in the National Championships, in three straight sets, was followed by an equally astounding win over Carroll Harrington '24, reputedly one of Rhode Island's best players, in five close matches. The third match was played this week with Lyman H. B. Olmsted, one of Barry Cowles' proteges, and the thirteenth ranking player in the state. Dorson won in three out of four...
...narrow margin of 3-2 today. The most important of the contests was the one between John C. Develin '38 and Dean Chauncey. Develin finally won out, taking three games out of four. Other Harvard winners were Captain Richard D. Dorson and Alvah W. Sulloway, who defeated Lyman Olmstead and Sebert 1d. Davenport '34 respectively...