Word: pere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since his college days at the University of Minnesota and Harvard Law School has made his way by personal brilliance. He joined the conservative Manhattan law fir in of Cravath & Henderson in 1916 and entered private banking because as a lawyer he helped Seligman & Co. with railroad reorganizations (Pere Marquette, Frisco, International Great Northern, M. K. T.). Yet, no stuffed-shirt, he leans toward the liberal side on economic questions, is familiar with (and discourses ably on) a wide range of modern economic thought. Last week accompanied by Mrs. Bailie (a professional landscape architect, daughter of Lawyer Henderson) their three...
Thus the year after stepping into C. & O., they joined with bushy-whiskered old George F. Baker, chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, to buy control of the Erie. Wanting outlets for the coal shipped over the C. & O. they bought into Pere Marquette (which served the industrial part of Michigan...
...Chesapeake Corp. and Morgan & Co. floated a $48,000,000 bond issue so that Chesapeake Corp. could buy the C. & O. stock held by the Nickel Plate and the Van Sweringen holding companies. But when the C. & O. asked permission to get control of the Erie and the Pere Marquette, the I. C. C. refused as regarded the Erie. Seeing they were getting nowhere, the Van Sweringens decided to set up a master holding company that would bring together all their railroad interests till such time as the roads could be consolidated. Hence, Alleghany Corp. Into this pot they poured...
Pictures every child should know are in the series of oblong French story books which Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Bernard's father, illustrated nearly 50 years ago. The late Senator William Andrews Clark knew them well and commissioned Boutet de Monvel pere to do a long mural panel of Joan of Arc which was one of the most important objects in the amazing house he built on Fifth Avenue. Senator Clark's Joan is now in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. As children Bernard and his brother Roger, now a writer, posed for that panel for hours...
...their September results. Their figures fully equalled the hopeful expectations stirred by the steady rise in September carloadings. Total net operating income was $49,533,000, only 7.2% below last year. Thirty-four roads, including the New York Central, St. Paul, Western Pacific, Louisville & Nashville, Atlantic Coast Line, Southern, Pere Marquette and Central of New Jersey, had better operating incomes than a year ago. For the first nine months of 1932 the 73 roads made 48.4% less than in 1931. The extreme low was in July when returns were only one-fifth of 1931's figure. Last week...