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...Shaver, another member of the old management. This gave Barr and Clarke complete control of the company in most critical matters. This was the first blow at Wolf son. The second : the board steam roller flattened Wolfson's plea for a committee to search out a new president, smoothly named Chairman Barr to that post as well. When the meeting ended, Wolfson, shut out completely, was near inarticulate and trembling with rage. If he continues his batt'e for control of Ward's, he will have to fight a tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Palace Revolution at Ward's | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

Died. Clement L. Shaver, 87, abstemious lawyer who successfully put over the nomination of fellow West Virginian John W. Davis for President at the famed 103-ballot 1924 Democratic Convention, as national chairman managed Davis' unsuccessful campaign against Calvin Coolidge; after long illness; in Fairmont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...World's only vacuum cleaner that cleans four ways at once" (Lewyt); "World's most advanced refining developments" (Mobilgas); "World's largest cordage laboratory" (Plymouth); "World's largest-selling denture cleaner" (Poli-dent); "World's strongest folding chair" (Samsonite); "World's thinnest electric shaver" (Schick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: World's Champion Clich | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...collegiate-looking thief took two typewriters, a suitcase, an electric shaver, and a clock from a Thayer South room Thursday morning while its occupants were eating breakfast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So. Thayer Room Burglarized; Loss Estimated at $200 | 3/6/1954 | See Source »

...corporate jobs; e.g., Mrs. Mildred McAfee Horton, 53, former president of Wellesley and wartime boss of the WAVES, is a director of NBC, RCA and the New York Life Insurance Co. Women have become leaders in obviously feminine lines, such as fashions, cosmetics and, increasingly, department stores, e.g., Dorothy Shaver, 56, president of Manhattan's Lord & Taylor. Women have done well in lines where their eye for detail is useful, e.g., banking (there are 8,105 female bank officers in the U.S., 9% of the total). But how rare women executives still are is shown by the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN EXECUTIVES: Plenty in Tchambuli -- Few in the U. S. | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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