Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Klux Klan tradition, have emigrated to Detroit in search of unskilled factory employment. To uphold "Protestantism, Americanism and Womanhood" and, as a sideline, to establish a mutual assistance group to find members jobs, a number of them founded the Black Legion in 1933. The organization burgeoned. No man could apply for membership, but if sponsored by friends, was enticed to a meeting. There, with a revolver at his heart, he was permitted to declare his willingness to "be torn limb from limb and scattered to the carrion" if he betrayed a word of society secrets. After swearing to support...
...Debt to the U. S. M. Blum is not likely to become his own Foreign Minister as he believes the Premier should hold no Cabinet portfolio. Meantime M. Blum was busy promulgating the means by which he expects to guarantee France peace & power in Europe: a six-sided mutual assistance treaty between France, Britain, Russia, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, notably omitting Germany, Italy and Poland. Just how tough a job of statesmanship M. Blum had set himself was indicated last week by Chicago Daily News Correspondent Edgar Ansel Mowrer: "The chief problem confronting . . . Leon Blum, is whether France...
...after Frederick Hudson Ecker moved up to the newly-created post of chairman. President Lincoln entered Metropolitan as general attorney in 1918. The same progression occurred in Connecticut General Life, where Frazar B. Wilde was promoted from a vice-presidency after Robert Watkinson Huntington was made chairman. In Pacific Mutual President George Ira Cochran took the chairmanship, being succeeded by Alexander Nesbitt Kemp. Security Mutual Life of Binghamton, N. Y. picked Frederick D. Russell as president to succeed David S. Dickinson, who resigned. Carl L. Odell succeeded Gilbert E. Humphreys as president of Hercules Life, Sears, Roebuck's mail...
Death took the presidents of five life insurance companies. Though no one has yet been named to succeed Ulysses Sherman Brandt of Ohio State Life. Massachusetts Mutual elected Bertrand James Perry after the death of William Henry Sargeant last December. Hartford's Phoenix Mutual picked Arthur M. Collens, a clergyman's son, who had been vice president under the late Archibald Ashley Welch. Insurance tragedy of the year befell Penn Mutual's William Adger Law, who was accidentally shot and killed by his good friend Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco...
John Hancock Mutual, eighth largest U. S. life company, lost President Walton Lee Crocker last January, elected its gen eral counsel, Guy Wilbur Cox, to succeed him. President Cox is a member of a no table family. Brother Channing Harris Cox was a Republican Governor of Massachusetts from 1921 to 1924, now heads Bos ton's famed Old Colony Trust Co. Brother Louis Sherburne Cox sits on the Massachusetts Superior Bench. Brother Walter Randall Cox lives in Goshen, N. Y., is the most famed trainer of trotting horses in the U. S. In one Hambletonian, Goshen trotting classic, four...