Word: newcomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week in the assembly room on the 23rd floor of the Manhattan headquarters of Western Union Telegraph Co., suave old Board Chairman Newcomb Carlton fingered a gavel, peered out anxiously at 200 faces, more of Western Union's 30,772 stockholders than he had ever seen at one time. Western Union's President Roy Barton White, stocky old-time railroad telegrapher, was reading a prepared statement explaining why Western Union had lost $1,637,000 in 1938. When perspiring President White lamely concluded that the report was the company's and not to be considered...
...Newcomb Carlton imperiously whacked his gavel, a short, balding, dimpled little man circulated happily through the muttering crowd. He was Stockholder Arthur C. Flatto,* enjoying a day to which he had looked forward for many months...
...NEWCOMB Mount Vernon...
...company's business increased." Mr. Bernays promptly repudiated the charge. Said he: "Sitting next to [Western Union's board chairman] Newcomb Carlton one evening at a testimonial dinner, where I had met him for the first time, I suggested that Mr. Carlton ask the chairman to refer to telegrams he was reading aloud as Western Union messages instead of telegrams...
Talk from Amherst sound big, but to Huey, who has no Fearon that account, that just Amherst-like jingoism. Lady Luck will double-cross Jordan today, for Newcomb-ers will have Watt I call rude a Wilkening, Visitors' hope will deKlein, and then they Lamb out of here quick. It Snow-ball game to Harvard--just more practice. Huey sees Winter day by Adlis 19-0 score. Also if Yanks not too Rolfe with bats, Fitzsimmons Ott to take third game of ball, Landis means series goes to Giants. Score today, Giants 5, Yanks...