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...Newcomb Steuart, Jr.-Barbara Morre (East Aurora...
...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...