Word: morrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico...
Dwight Whitney Morrow: Who in our relations with Mexico has brought out of confusion clarity, out of suspicion confidence, out of friction peace...
President George K. Morrow of the Gold Dust Corp. telephoned lawyers of John D. Rockefeller last week. Mr. Rockefeller and his friends owned 95,000 shares of American Linseed Co.'s preferred stock, and President Morrow wanted that preferred stock as a good beginning toward buying full control of American Linseed. Later he would deal with Laird, Bissell & Meeds (investment bankers) and others who owned American Linseed common stock...
...absorbed in 1923. The cotton oil business did not pay. Gold Dust abandoned it and pushed the sale of cleansers made by the American Cotton Oil's subsidiary, N. K. Fairbank Co. Those cleansers are Gold Dust, Fairy Soap, Sunny Monday Soap and like products. To them President Morrow late in 1925 added by purchase the shoe polishes of the F. F. Dalley Corp.-Shinola, Two-in-One, Bixby brands. Early this year he was negotiating to add Ball fruit jars and Crosse & Blackwell's good English jams, marmalades and other dainties. The Gold Dust Corp. stock...
...this the Gold Dust people have well known, plus the additional fact that John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his associates were inclined to sell their American Linseed stock. There were pourparlers and offers, so that last week Gold Dust's President George K. Morrow need merely put through a telephone call to the Rockefeller counsel. The talk was brief-a new corporation, Gold Dust American Corp., would be formed and for its stock the Rockefellers would exchange their American Linseed preferred stock. Minority preferred holders and the commonholders would have opportunity to trade their shares for the new company...