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...meeting was without incident?the same directors having been unanimously reelected, except that E. D. Stair was elected a director in the place of Alvin W. Krech, deceased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Railroad Director | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...majority Wabash shares which jt recently bought (with Lehigh Valley stock) from Leonor Fresnel Loree's Delaware & Hudson for $63,000,000 cash. Nor did it refer to Mr. Williams recent resignation from the D. & H.'s vice-presidency and board of managers. Nor did it mention Mr. Stair's other business affiliations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Railroad Director | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Edward Douglas Stair, 69, is director of Graham-Paige Motors Corp., the Detroit Trust Co., the First National Bank of Detroit, amusement enterprises. He is president and principal owner of the Detroit Free Press. The Free Press is the smallest of Detroit's three newspapers (the News and Times are the others). Nonetheless its daily circulation is 229,294; its Sunday 276,016. It makes Mr. Stair an important force in Detroit and its environs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Railroad Director | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...Stair is unique as an important publisher. Other publishers of his rank have sedulously avoided open relations with other business enterprises. William Randolph Hearst, for all his wealth, is publicly a director only in Cosmopolitan Finance Co., and the International Film Service Co. His Arthur Brisbane, who is rich in real estate and touts great corporations in his syndicated editorials, is known to be director of no company. Roy Wilson Howard tends closely to his newspaper and affiliated enterprises. So also Conde-Nast, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and the Booths (George G. and Ralph Harman) of Detroit, and Adolph Ochs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Railroad Director | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

From the German Foreign Office stepped Dr. Gustav Stresemann, jaunty and smartly attired despite his rotundity. Passing down the famed Wilhelmstrasse (William Street) he crossed the Wilhelmplatz (William Square), entered the tall gloomy portal of the U. S. Embassy, and strode briskly up its cheerful, white stone stair. Soon Dr. Stresemann was handing a crisp, official envelope to U. S. Ambassador Jacob Gould Schurman, onetime President of Cornell University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Germany Accepts | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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