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Gradually, companies are learning to hold their annual meetings in big cities instead of drab, out-of-the-way factory towns. Westinghouse has started holding regional annual meetings around the U.S. so that as many stockholders as possible can attend. Matson lines takes its stockholders on a gala tour of its luxury liner Lurline. Chas. Pfizer & Co., maker of antibiotics, once brought in eight piebald baby pigs and a testy tiger cub to demonstrate the benefits of a new synthetic milk product. Chesapeake Industries perked up its annual meeting this year with a special preview of Hollywood's Crossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry Courts the Hand That Feeds It | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...After telling the McCarthy committee that derogatory material on employees sometimes strangely disappeared from State Department personnel files, departmental Security Agent John Matson was switched from his desk job to a pavement-pounding assignment. It was a low-echelon switch which Dulles would probably never have heard of if McCarthy had not hit the headlines by protesting about reprisals against Matson. Within a few days Matson was restored to his desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Neither Flight nor Fight | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...John E. Matson, a foreign service security officer, corroborated Mrs. Balog's statements: it was a "deplorable" fact that almost anybody from the department could get into the files and could take papers out. He had some additional evidence of file-milking. One department employee had been ousted on a morals charge,*but later the damning evidence was removed from his file and the man was certified, on the basis of the remaining information, for an Air Force assignment in Germany

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Files on Parade | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

HERMAN PHLEGER, 62, to be legal adviser to the Secretary of State. A prominent San Francisco lawyer (Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison), a graduate of the University of California and Harvard Law School, he is a director of numerous banking and business enterprises (American Trust, Union Oil. Moore Dry Dock, Matson Navigation, etc.), a trustee of Stanford. He served as a Navy lieutenant in World Wrar I, and as a legal expert with the U.S. occupation forces in post-World War II Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ADMINISTRATION: Appointments | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...commissioned a Richmond-bound friend to ask Lady Wonder where he could find the body of Danny Matson, a four-year-old boy from Quincy, Mass., who had been missing for two years. The mare tapped out: Pittsfield water wheel. Dewing sent a detective to Pittsfield, Mass. The investigator found two water wheels but no body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Detective Story | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

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