Word: saylor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chairman. For the patent the Garland company paid $500 in stock. It was taken into the balance sheet at $7,500. Meantime Yaleman Garland acquired a crony named Arnold C. Mason, Class of 1928 (Sheffield) and a member of a solid St. Louis family. Later a third named David Saylor II joined them, though he never achieved the corporate importance of Messrs. Garland & Mason...
...Most people had never heard of Canada Dry ginger ale and the U. S. pop business had no chic when, in 1923, Parry Borland Saylor became head of the U. S. branch of Canada Dry Co. of Canada. A sharp, aggressive onetime tire salesman, he made his product look as much like a champagne bottle as possible (green glass, gold-foil collar), went after the public with a svelte and costly advertising campaign. The results so astounded his Canadian bosses that they sold the parent company to him on the spot. But Parry Dorland Saylor soon struck a snag...
Last week Mr. Saylor, whose latest undertaking was to put Canada Dry into the liquor business, resigned his presidency, will continue as chairman. Under an amendment to the company's bylaws, the board chairman is to become chief executive and financial officer, the president chief operating officer. Elected president was Roy W. Moore, handsome, sociable, longtime vice president in charge of operations...
...exclusive U. S. sales rights on Johnny Walker Scotch whiskey, Sandeman's wines and Cinzano vermouth. Finally it began marketing Canada Dry gin. The company now admits that these liquor ventures were not altogether successful. Net profit for 1934 of $439,500 was, according to President Parry Dorland Saylor, "not all that we hoped it would be." Like many another liquor company, Canada Dry had overestimated U. S. liquor consumption, taken a substantial loss on sales through price markdowns...
...unsuccessful attempt to hold up Farmers Deposit Bank of South Vienna, Ohio, a lone robber mortally shot President Henry Marlin Saylor...