Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost an "original subscriber" and have followed your fortunes with the greatest interest. If I had to choose between TIME and the several other magazines that I take, I would retain TIME for it has made itself absolutely indispensable to me. And this in spite of the fact that it irritates me intensely at times. Mr. Hadden, aided of course by his able coadjutors, has built up a great publication. He will be missed, but TIME is now on such a firm foundation that it will go on just the same...
President Hoover, working out his sub-Cabinet appointments last week, began on the four air officers-Assistant Secretary of War (F. Trubee Davison), Second. Assistant Postmaster General (Warren I. Glover), Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics (William P. MacCracken Jr.). The President decided to retain Messrs. Davison and Glover and to accept resignations from Messrs. Warner and MacCracken. For Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, the President soon chose David Sinton Ingalls of Cleveland, a perfect complement for the Air Secretary of War. They are about the same age, enthusiasts, good friends. Mr. Davison founded the naval...
...pass out of existence in the goth year of its age. As far as merger officers are concerned, Commerce gets the board chairmanship, Guaranty Trust the presidency, as James Strange Alexander, chairman of the board of National Bank of Commerce, and William C. Potter, president of Guaranty Trust, will retain their positions with the merged bank. Charles H. Sabin, board chairman of Guaranty, becomes vice-chairman of the board in the new organization. He will also be full board chairman of Guaranty Co. (the investment subsidiary of Guaranty Trust Co.) which will function for the combined institutions. The merger appears...
...none of the Piggly Wiggly stores does Clarence Saunders, the original Piggly Wiggly man, retain an interest. Instead, he now heads a competitive chain of 400 Clarence Saunders Stores, serving 225 towns and cities in 18 states. Last week the Saunders chain was extended to the Pacific Coast with a million-dollar stock issue offered in Clarence Saunders Pacific Stores...
...retail price of a box of matches is fixed by law at two lei (1.18?) for 1929, but after July, 1930 will be jacked up to three lei (1.77?). Royalties approximating $3,000,000 annually will be paid to the State, and the Trust agrees to retain Rumanian workmen in the local match factories. Legislation embodying these momentous arrangements was voted, last week, by the Rumanian Chamber of Deputies...