Word: ogden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case was Floyd Odium's Ogden Corp., successor to Harley Clarke's bankrupt Utilities Power & Light system, which Odium has been splitting into its component operating properties since 1935. Biggest U. P. & L. property, Indianapolis Power & Light, was sold to the public three months ago (TIME, April 15). Ogden Corp. holds the U. P. & L. leftovers. Odium wanted to do something for Ogden's common stock, of which his Atlas Corp. owns 76%. He figured he could save around $110,000 a year by substituting a 2½% bank loan for Ogden's 5% preferred. Atlas...
Last week SEC sanctioned the deal. But SEC also pointed out that under an ordinary holding company case it would be unable to approve the substitution of senior debt for preferred stock. Reasons given for making an exception of Ogden: 1) Ogden admittedly exists for the purpose of liquidation; the new bank loan is therefore not long-term debt but a convenience yielding economies; 2) the proposed loan will be covered over three times by collateral of $14,914,024. Reason not given: Odium, whose liquidation of U. P. & L. is carrying out the intent of Section 11, deserves...
...notice of the publication of the Dictionary of American Biography in time to secure the inclusion of our claims in this connection, we discover the very interesting fact that the alleged biography of Joseph Smith in that compilation was written by Bernard DeVoto who, we note, was born in Ogden, Utah, and who, it is a safe conjecture, either is or was a Utah Mormon, or of Mormon parentage...
...President (Taft) was a Bones man. Among living Bones men are Presidential Candidate Robert A. Taft, Republican Leader Kenneth Simpson, Banker Percy Rockefeller, onetime Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot. onetime Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, Author Donald Ogden Stewart, Radio Singer Lanny Ross, Yale's President Charles Seymour. Not strictly accurate is the legend that a Bones man is never without a job, but a Bones man on his uppers often gets handouts from fellow Bones men or the society. Skull & Bones (corporate name: Russell Trust Association) is sometimes alleged to be Connecticut's second richest corporation (first...
...York Willard Dalrymple Christina Rossetti, Rye Beach David J. Davis Mary Marsh, Wellesley Henry H. Dearing, Jr. Rena Zary, Cleveland Wheeler Dennis, Jr. Peggy Lewis, Packer Institute John W. Dixon Audrey Armstrong, Pembroke Donald H. Eldredge, Jr. Betty McClure, Wellesley Robert Ellery Fanny Gassett, Perkins Olaf H. Fernald Lucille Ogden, Wellesley Philip St. G. Field Becky Farnsworth, Winchester Gabriel P. Freedman Geraldine Cohn, Radcliffe Sanford J. Freedman Sue Cohen, Skidmore Stanley A. Freedman Joyce Beskind, Great Neck, N. Y. John R Friar Virginia Ranney, Weston Maurice S. Friedman Sally Baker, Radcliffe Raymond Friedman Elayne Frank, New York University James...