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...industrial milky way. Thirty-one directors sit on National's board. Among them are Jerome H. Remick of Detroit, longtime head of the famed song publishing company bearing his name ("Smiles;" " 'Til We Meet Again;" "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"); Banker George Franklin Rand of Marine Midland Corp.; Sidney J. Weinberg of Goldman, Sachs & Co., whose trading corporation owns 23,000 National shares; James Lewis Kraft, the cheese man. But the director whose word carries the most weight is Thomas Henry McInnerney, 64, founder and president of the company...
...action. Modestly he wonders whether perhaps he has "only painted a landscape and some people--men and women reading the earth under the quandary of the sky." Out of the compromise that must always result between the intention to portray life and achieving that portrayal arises the village of Midland and its inhabitants. Ab Carver with his big laughter, the blind Wilbur Allen, and Bruce Durken who, true to melodramatic tradition died in the final burning of the church about which the story is woven and to which he had dedicated his life...
Colombian Petroleum is controlled by Gulf Oil Corp. of Pennsylvania (Mellon-controlled), buyer of a 75% interest for $2,500,000 in 1926. The remaining 25% is held by Carib Syndicate, Ltd., among whose directors are Charles Hayden of Hayden. Stone & Co., Ernest Stauffen Jr. of Marine Midland Corp. The Barco Concession is in the Department of North Santander, 200 miles from the Caribbean...
More and more shocking to Londoners has become the uproarious conduct of stockholders at annual meetings. Perhaps the most shocking scene of all occurred last week. Sir Josiah Charles Stamp, revered as one of the greatest of British economists, finished reading his report to stockholders of the London Midland & Scottish Railway of which he is chairman. Hisses and groans greeted his statement that the road, largest of British single enterprises, had finished the worst year in its history...
Next day, Bruce's own mind almost unhinged, his Christian faith quite gone, he announced to the blind man his conversion to the Truth of Nature, said he would go out and preach under the trees against all churches. But Midland was spared this final apotheosis. That night an idiot boy set fire to the Methodist church, then hid in a barn. The boy's mother, frantic, thought he was still in the burning building. Bruce plunged in to save the idiot and went to glory in the flames...