Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When he read of the killing of the truck driver by a "mob" yesterday, Sears rushed through a long distance call to his father. He begged for permission to ride with the next truck into Boston, Sears senior who often drives his trucks himself, denied his son's plea to "get in on it," and his mother ordered him to stay out of any strike mix ups in Cambridge. "If I can get some support I won't stay out of anything," he proclaimed...
...Washington. Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes ordered underlings to do something about roadside signs which read, "Slow Men Working...
...when he ran a chicken farm as a sideline to his first job after graduation from Fordham. He was a school teacher at $10 a week in a two-pupil rural New York school where Brother Leo janitored for $5 a year. At home in the long evenings he read Blackstone and the Bard. In 1915 he left his two pupils for the Times, pieced out a cub's salary with the slightly ornithological sideline of running the Central Park swanboat concession. When he went to War his father, then dean of Hunter, supervised John's boat stands...
...Entrepreneur Myers began promoting a deal: let little TVA buy Nebraska's private utility systems outright, finance the purchase by a bond issue of about $90,000,000. Banker Myers tied up with young Paul H. Nitze, a former officer of Dillon, Read & Co., arranged a nationwide syndicate to market the bonds. The first Nebraska utility man Mr. Myers interviewed practically threw him out. But back in Wall Street the holding-company financiers who run utilitydom were seeing the handwriting on the wall in Wendell Willkie's losing fight against big TVA. A few judicious telephone calls soon...
...Seiberling founded Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1898, was ousted in 1921 by Dillon, Read & Co. He immediately started Seiberling Rubber Co., in six years boosted it from 330th to seventh place in the industry. Last week, in Adrian H. Muller & Son's musty old auction rooms at No. 18 Vesey Street, Manhattan, he gave an exhibition of his financial talents...