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With a hundred and ninety odd residents of Winthrop House petitioning Lehman Hall to restore their former janitor to his accustomed beat, the recent shake-up of the college's night watch has catapulted into public notice. For what might seem to the administration merely a routine shift of duties for the staff has cast its shadow over the everyday life of the whole college...
Early comers had been spooked by the knowledge that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles, Comptroller of the Currency James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor, and RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones, still convalescent after his air-crash shake-up three months ago, were all in San Francisco. Of these, only Jesse Jones was slated to address the convention but rumor had it that his colleagues represented a New Deal concentration for pressure purposes. It was a false alarm. Mr. Eccles disappeared in the general direction of home at Ogden, Utah. Mr. O'Connor merely issued cheery figures on California...
Amoskeag's sales fell from $56,000,000 in 1920 to $28,000,000 in 1928; its production from 223,000,000 yd. of cloth in 1912 to 100,000,000 yd. in 1928. In 1927, when it looked as if Amoskeag would have to close, a company shake-up gave the job of saving the company to Treasurer Frederic Christopher Dumaine...
...lives luxuriously in Manhattan's swank River Touse, owns a 100-ft. yacht called the Arab. Moreover, he has very clear notions on how investment counsel firms hould be run. When he is unable to run them his way, he moves. His latest move roots back to a shake-up which occurred in C. W. Young & Co., nearly a year ago. His backer-directors felt, among other things, that the firm was growing too big to be a one-man show. From Wall Street they summoned two new vice presidents, Robert W. Sinsabaugh, a onetime Central Hanover Bank & Trust...
Lately International's directors have been tightening up on budgets, paring personnel. An executive shake-up occurred last spring when E. A. Charlton resigned, to be succeeded as active boss of the paper mills by Kraftman Cullen. At a board meeting last month it was decided that Mr. Graustein should resign as president of International Paper Co., remain as head of International Paper & Power, the top holding company. Presumably Mr. Cullen was to have a free hand in paper, Mr. Graustein in power...