Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors, before sailing for Europe on the Olympic last week, issued a long statement, of which the meat was that General Motors would cut a very fat melon in November. The stock did not soar, because some such statement had long been expected in Wall Street and the stock had already completed a steady rise...
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors Corp. Reason: "As stockholders in the United States, have we not received excellent dividends in the way of reduced taxes, quite general prosperity? Why, then, is a change logical?" Mr. Sloan admitted that "observance of prohibition laws is far from satisfactory," but he is "thoroughly convinced that prohibition has increased our national efficiency...
Elected. Matthew Scott Sloan, 47, president of the Brooklyn Edison Co.; to be president of the New York Edison Co., succeeding Nicholas Frederic Brady (resigned...
...President Sloan of General Motors made it clear, too, that Finance Chairman Raskob of General Motors was unanimously expected to resume his business duties when Democratic Chairman Raskob's job was over. But he reiterated that all General Motors officers, employes, dealers, stockholders were free to stand politically as each thought best. This emphasis, in both letters, made people doubt that too-much-work was the cause underlying the Raskob withdrawal. People said that the cause was pressure from within General Motors, notably perhaps from the six Fisher Brothers (bodies), four of whom are General Motors directors...
...against 840,481 last year. Out of its plenty, General Motors made a great and generous gesture. It dickered for a time with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., then announced a contract for a $400,000,000 life, sickness and accident policy, open to any employe from President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., to Jacob Hazay, who works a grinding machine at the Detroit plant. Jacob Hazay earns $32 a week. To share in the insurance plan, he must pay a premium of $1.50 a month, or about one cent on every dollar he makes. If he dies, Mrs. Hazay will...