Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said it was coming," said Mr. Dana O'Clare of Manhattan's Lord & Taylor department store in a mixed mood of complacency and profane surprise, "and last night, by God, it came...
...Seton and his second wife, Julia Buttree Seton, 49, proudly announced that they were the parents of a five-month-old daughter, Beulah. Said Mrs. Seton: "People do look askance at us, and want to know if Beulah isn't our adopted daughter. They do not understand that Mr. Seton, despite his age, is just as youthful mentally, physically and spiritually as he has ever been." Interviewed again by a newshawk who had discovered that last June in Santa Fe they had filed adoption papers for the child, she said: "We were going to make the adoption public...
...believes there are as many as 700. First profit-sharer to appear last week was President Richard R. Deupree of Procter & Gamble Co. (Ivory Soap). As he took the stand the survey's director set the tenor for the meeting by remarking: "This is not an inquisition, Mr. Deupree. We are glad to have you come to help...
Those ten hard years lay heavy in the thoughts of big, bashful Francis Breese Davis Jr. last week as he handed reporters a mimeographed announcement: for the first time since 1928 United States Rubber Co. has declared a dividend-4% on its 8% preferred. Since 1929, when Mr. Davis became chairman and president of U. S. Rubber, that overfed, unhealthy industrial giant had several times been within a banker's nod of extinction. Last week the giant was healthy again, its waistline of funded debt reduced from $130,000,000 to $46,000,000, its muscles bulging with...
Less intricate to anybody but a bookkeeper was the thorough house-cleaning he gave the company. His first move was to let his employes ride with him in the elevator; his predecessor, Charles B. Seger, had risen to his office in solitary splendor. Mr. Davis told his men to work from nine to five, as he did. He toured the company's antiquated plants and gasped: "They're making tires like they made the pyramids!" He installed assembly line methods, introduced the "merry-go-round" (semicircular tire-building track), eliminated the "one man, one boot" system...