Word: shoup
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroads last week came another important 1929 shift of executives. Previous noteworthy changes involved the Southern Pacific. They were the retirement of William Sproale as president, succession of Paul Shoup to the presidency, and the resignation of Hale Holden from the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy to become chairman of Southern Pacific's (New York) executive committee...
Elected. Paul Shoup, executive vice president of the Southern Pacific Railway, of Los Altos, Calif.; to be president, succeeding William Sproule of San Francisco on his retirement...
...claims), was replaced as board chairman by Joseph Holton Defrees, Chicago lawyer. The four vice presidents are: President Alfred J. Brosseau of Mack Trucks (Manhattan), President Robert R. Ellis of the Hessig-Ellis Drug Co. (Memphis), President Robert Patterson Lamont of American Steel Foundries (Chicago), Vice President Paul Shoup of the Southern Pacific Co. (San Francisco...
Governor William H. Adams of Colorado and Oliver Henry Shoup, who was Governor before him (1919-23), swung sledges last week to drive a spike into a railroad tie under the Continental Divide west of Denver. The spike was a golden one and the two laborers made speeches. Mayor John F. Bowman of Salt Lake City made a speech, representing Governor George H. Dern of Utah. Then 2,500 people, on four special trains, rode forth and back through the six-mile Moffat tunnel thus formally opened. The tunnel connects Denver and the "near West" with the vast, enormously rich...
...President of the new company will be Axtell J. Byles; directors: Henry W. de Forest of Manhattan, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Southern Pacific Co.; W. F. Humphrey of San Francisco, Director of Associated Oil Co.; Paul Shoup of San Francisco, President of Associated Oil Co.; Robert McKelvy of Manhattan, Vice President of Tide Water Oil Co.; Axtell J. Byles, President of Tide Water Oil Co.; E. L. Shea, Vice President of Tide Water Oil Co., and George White of Marietta, Ohio...