Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company here, another company there. Today the Philippines and Nova Scotia are on the fringe of his empire, while Tennessee and South Carolina are in its suburbs. Its heart is in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Hundreds of companies have passed through the hands of this master of corporate complexity. The number of companies he "eliminated" from his intricate set-up was at one time calculated as 296. A few months ago an official reckoning set the number remaining at 164, of which 104 were operating companies. Some Hopson companies were management companies, some engineering companies, some vendors...
Many a plebe was just learning that in dancing, unlike marching, he must not put his heel down first, when Death came to Rudolph W. Vizay, longtime Dancing Master of the United States Military Academy (TIME, March 11). Last week "Madame"' Vizay's half-trained pupils lined up in Cullum Hall to take their lessons from Mr. & Mrs. George Roberts...
...Savage, bereft of job and money, disappeared forever. Never much of a factor in his wife's accounts of their life, this good Britisher lost what remained of his identity when the former Maria Metten took to pronouncing their name as if it were French. In 1908 Chorus Master Giulio Setti offered her a place at the newly reorganized Metropolitan. She sailed on the same ship with Giulio Gatti-Casazza, says she flirted with him all the way across under the impression he was a fellow artist, "so you can imagine how I felt when I knew he would...
...would give the two biggest creditors, Oxford Paper Co. and Cuneo Press, control of the company. Filled with violent and vociferous alarm, a minority committee of debenture-holders marched into court last week to decry the plan as a "squeeze out" which sabotaged their rights. They persuaded the Special Master to order an investigation of the protective committee's origin and motives...
...when the Whiskey Ring fraud exposures led to government seizure of his father's liquor stores. He went on the famed buffalo hunt of Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, when the special escort, commanded by Generals Sheridan and Custer, included the West's most distinguished plainsmen. A master of understatement, Author Otero barely mentions the fact that after he received an appointment to Annapolis, at the age of 15, he escaped to St. Louis, made his father's agents there return him to the West. He worked in his father's commission house but quarreled with...