Word: ranney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tribune's news bomb fizzled harmlessly when word leaked out that a committee of Continental Illinois directors had settled on a bank chairman of their own. He was George Alfred Ranney, long-time treasurer of International Harvester, since last May assistant to James Simpson in the job of cleaning up the Insull operating companies...
George Alfred Ranney, vice president of International Harvester, author of some of its clear, frank financial statements, director of Chicago's First National Bank, and great, golf-playing friend of Melvin Traylor, accepted an offer to become vice chairman and financial head of Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas Light & Coke, Public Service of Northern Illinois-posts recently held by Samuel Insull...
...unusual for an officer of a company to assure shareholders regarding a future dividend. Usually the assurance turns out to have been well founded, as when last autumn Vice President George A. Ranney of International Harvester Co. said the dividend would be held at $2.50. But sometimes an officer speaks in order to help the price of the stock or before sounding out the directorate. Lately, shareholders have become wary of official statements. Last week their remaining faith received another jolt. On Sept. 29, fresh from Europe, President Simon Guggenheim of American Smelting & Refining Co. told reporters: "In consideration...
...mile run will most likely be a duel between Langley of Dartmouth and Martin of Cornell with R. P. Wesley '33 and J. W. Fobes '32 coming close to the leaders. Martin is slated to win the event. David Cobb '31 is entered to run against Ranney, captain-elect of the Cornell cross country team, and will have great difficulty in beating him. The latter has covered the distance...
...Mexico City League, organized three years ago by Mrs. Francis Ranney, wife of a Mexican Light & Power Co. official, with the support of Senora Fortes Gil and Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, is composed of U. S. citizens permanently resident in the Mexican capital. Its lone Mexican member is the wife of a U.S. citizen. Because they were considered transients, Elizabeth and Anne, daughters of Ambassador Morrow, were not admitted. When it applied for membership in the national association, the Mexico City branch was, as is customary, kept waiting two years to test its quality...