Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amelia Earhart, 32, transatlantic flyer and her great & good friend George Palmer Putnam, 43, Manhattan publisher (divorced last year from Mrs. Dorothy Binney Putnam) were issued a marriage license at Groton, Conn. In Manhattan two days later Publisher Putnam said: "To marry Miss Earhart would be swell. But while it seems pretty definite that a marriage license has been issued, we have not been married and I cannot say when we will be." In Washington the same day Flyer Earhart said: "Let's not talk about the license. I can't be any more definite than...
From his modernistic desk in his modernistic new offices, President Carleton H. Palmer of E. R. Squibb & Son preached the five-day week to his fellow industrialists. His potent points: "If all industries adopted the five-day week, that would decrease production about 9% at a maximum. That means a maximum of 9% more workers would have to be employed . . . would take care of at least half of the millions unemployed today...
President Palmer practices his preachments. Squibb has been five-day-weeking for three months, its production is at 98% of theoretical capacity, its payroll is 5% bigger than before...
...from a single New York city bakery in 1849 to its present position with 22 bakery plants and $44.575.000 assets the Ward company, particularly since the deaths of Charles A. Ward (February 1930) and William Breining Ward (February 1929) has been unprosperous. Last week alarmed stockholders, headed by Edgar Palmer of New Jersey Zinc Co., organized an ouster movement to replace the present management with a new directorate of which George Kenan Morrow of Gold Dust Corp. would be chairman. The regular stockholders' meeting is scheduled for the second Thursday in February, but the Morrow faction was attempting...
Although the antimanagement group has been popularly referred to as the Morrow faction, and although able Mr. Morrow's acquisition (TIME, Aug. 26, 1929) of United Cigar Stores gave wide publicity to the Morrow Interests, Edgar Palmer might well have been considered prime mover in the attempt to shift Ward control. Mr. Palmer is the largest individual stockholder not only in Ward but also in Continental and in General Baking. He is said to have some $15,000,000 invested in the bakery business. In 1924, when Ward Class A (voting) stock was selling between...