Word: mottes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bond issue to pay off the adjusted service certificates would cause "hundreds and hundreds of bank failures" throughout the land. Arthur Reynolds, board chairman of great Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, likened bonus cashing to a "hypodermic of strychnine given to a sick man." Clarence Mott Woolley, board chairman of American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. warned that the scheme would "wreck all chance of economic recovery." Other critics included Edward Dickinson Duffield (Prudential Life Insurance), Samuel Wallace Reyburn (Associated Dry Goods Corp.), Henry T. Ferriss (National Investment Bankers Association...
Elected. President David Franklin Houston of Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of Agriculture under President Wilson; Board Chairman Clarence Mott Woolley of American Radiator Co.; and Director Harry Pelham Robbins of Empire Trust Co.; to the board of trustees of Columbia University. General William Barclay Parsons was re-elected board chairman (his 15th year...
...grim red lines marking the boundaries ? 'OH, YOU TAKE THE HIGH BROW AND I'LL TAKE THE LOW BROW'? That's the way the system works ? and as the dirt comes to me, an amateur starter is about as welcome as a stray Hip Sing in Mott Street. . . . Discovery that K. K. K. stood for 'Ku Klux Kon' has reduced the membership in the Klan from 9,000,000 five years ago to 35,000 now. Tough on the Imperial Wizard and the percentage-boy organizers, but I guess nobody else is weeping ? if we count...
...commission (No. 13?TIME, June 16) to investigate the Shipping Board's liquidation troubles, President Hoover last week chose: Edward Nash Hurley of Chicago, onetime Shipping Board chairman; President Clarence Mott Woolley of American Radiator Co. (Allan Hoover's boss this summer); and Ira Alexander Campbell of Manhattan, famed Admiralty lawyer...
...head of the list is Walter Hull Aldridge, president of Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. At the bottom is American Radiator's Clarence Mott Woolley. In between are only some 85 other names but all are potent in U. S. business. They bring potency to the National Foreign Trade Council whose membership they form. For the most part the Council works silently but effectively on the problems of trade and its encouragement, but once a year it holds an open Convention, invites all who would like to hear problems discussed, experiences narrated. Last week the 17th annual Foreign Trade Council...