Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...account of the importance to the corporation as well as to yourself of making it unmistakably clear that the corporation takes no part in political affairs, we are constrained to accept your request to be relieved of all your duties in connection with the corporation. . . . "Sincerely yours, "Alfred P. Sloan...
President William M. Sloan of the American Academy of Arts & Letters (Manhattan...
...business principle which he taught his two sons, James Cox* and Nicholas Frederic, was to search for executive genius. They early supported Walter P. Chrysler in automobiles and Matthew S. Sloan in public utilities. Mr. Chrysler is now chairman of the Chrysler Motors Corp., and Mr. Sloan is President of Brooklyn Edison...
Later, Bishop Luther Wilson got up to read the Episcopal address whose substance had been prepared by the Board of Bishops but whose clear and strident phraseology was in large part his own. In this, there was a reprimand that applied to Dr. Sloan and exemplified the admirable Methodist point of view on the evolution bugaboo: "If the preacher assumes to answer every adversary of Christianity he will make the place a battlefield instead of a sheepfold...
Laymen. Publishers also heard fine words from the mouths of Rev. Samuel Parkes Cadman, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America; Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors Corp.; Count Hermann Keyserling, philosopher; Mayor James J. Walker of New York City; M. H. Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting Corp. The only backslapper at the convention was a onetime blackface comedian named Frank Colton who was hired to parade through corridors of the Waldorf-Astoria as Maj. Amos Hoople, comic strip character syndicated...