Word: pritchard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.-"I find that my thinking is so entirely out of harmony with that of the leaders of Congress that I feel I would only be wasting the time of your committee...
James David Mooney, president of General Motors Export Co., was re- elected president of American Manufacturers Export Association. Onetime reporter, onetime assistant editor of American Machinist, Mr. Mooney entered General Motors as assistant to Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. He was put into its Remy division, jumped to president, then shifted to general manager of the export division. When he became head of the export division in 1922, GM was selling abroad about 20,000 cars a year. By 1929 he had shot this figure to nearly 300,000, was selling cars from 23 export centres to nearly every country...
General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., after querying 150 U. S. leaders by wire, announced: "Research, invention, improvement of labor-saving devices are more important today than ever before. I hope that out of these new needs new commodities, new industries will be developed, stimulating industrial and economic effort and creating new and enlarged employment opportunities...
...leadership of the 35 companies represented in Manhattan last week (their total capital stock: $1,000,000,000). there had been few changes in 1932. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. still spoke for General Motors; Walter P. Chrysler for Chrysler; Alvan Macauley for Packard (and as president of Automobile Chamber of Commerce, for the Industry) ; Albert Russel Erskine for Studebaker. Henry Ford still spoke for Lincoln: his Ford is not a member of the show. Notable among the changes had been the departure of Roy Dikeman Chapin, to be U. S. Secretary of Commerce, leaving William Joseph Mc-Aneeny active leader...
Died. Katherine Mead Sloan. 81, mother of President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. of General Motors Corp.; of heart disease; in Manhattan...