Word: potter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Young controls Alleghany Corp., top holding company in the former Van Sweringen railroad empire. William Potter is board chairman of Guaranty Trust Co., which holds, as collateral on bonds now in technical default, Alleghany's 71% interest in Chesapeake Corp., middle link in the chain between Alleghany and rich Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Financiers Young and Potter have been on the mat for months to see which shall dominate C. & O. (TIME, April...
...comparative freedom of range within the field, each man seemed excited about his work, and with the help of the tutor this enthusiasm can be well developed and directed. The tutors in general are highly praised. In the English field Perkins is fine for the 18th century; Potter excellent in England, France, and Germany; Houghton good on poetry and the 17th century; Miller in America; Finley and Dow in the Classics. Durand knows his Aquinas and Bacon, but perhaps because he is over-worked, he seems indifferent to tutees. New tutors in the department will be D. J. Boorstin, England...
Died. Anton Lang, 63, Bavarian potter who three times (1900, 1910, 1922) played the role of the Christus in the Oberammergau Passion Play; after an operation for a stomach ailment; in Munich. Softspoken, spade-whiskered Anton Lang first appeared in the Passion Play in 1878, read the prologue in 1930 and 1934, was succeeded in his chief part by Alois Lang, a woodcarver...
...volume of [the British] Who's Who states Conrad Potter Aiken married 1st, 1912, Jessie McDonald; divorced 1929; 2nd, 1930, Clarice Mary Lorenz; divorced 1937; 3rd, Mary Augusta Hoover...
...America; Chairman Frederick H. Ecker, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; President John M. Franklin, International Mercantile Marine Co.; President Robert M. Hanes, Wachovia Bank & Trust Co.; President Robert Wood Johnson, Johnson & Johnson; President Sydney G. McAllister,International Harvester Co.; President Thomas I. Parkinson, Equitable Life Assurance Society; Chairman William C. Potter, Guaranty Trust Co.; Chairman S. Clay Williams, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.; Chairman Clarence M. Woolley, American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp.; Chairman Owen D. Young, General Electric...