Word: pritchard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face. Soon he was scurrying back & forth between the President's son James and the better Manhattan clubs, and five men were selected to do the talking: Mr. Chester, Pennsylvania R. R.'s Martin W. Clement, Johns-Manville's Lewis H. Brown, General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. and National Steel's Ernest Tener Weir...
...stockholders had turned out to rule their company, but that in the room, on the seventh floor of the Du Pont Building, there were but 20 chairs at meeting time. Presiding was heavyset, florid John Thomas Smith, GM vice president and general counsel. Absent were President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. and 30 other directors...
...General Motors' 342,384 stockholders President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. last week sent two communications: a 62-page annual report and a 13-page "Story of the General Motors Strike." From these, wrote President Sloan, the stockholder may "obtain as complete an understanding as is possible of the Corporation's position and of such influences as may affect its trend in the future." GM in 1936 sold 2,037,690 automobiles and trucks, exceeding by 7% the previous all- time high mark of 1,899,267 (1929). For these cars last year and for many another GM product...
Others earning more than $300,000 included General Motors President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. ($374,505) and Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen ($325,869), Marlene Dietrich ($368,000), Bing Crosby ($318,907), Gary Cooper ($311,000). Twentieth Century-Fox Film's Winfield R. Sheehan...
...nation (TIME, May 4). Though the President appeared to contradict himself a few days later at a White House press conference while elaborating upon the high cost of old-fashioned building methods, his statement was overlooked by no alert businessman. Last week in Los Angeles General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan, a representative of an industry whose history is most clearly at variance with the President's observation, delivered the first measured rebuttal to Jefferson Day economics. Said G. M.'s president...