Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Other salaries fixed by the Court: for vice presidents $6,000 to $18,600, for secretary & treasurer $6,000, for general solicitor $4,800. President Baldwin, rated one of the ablest operating men in railroads, sent to the "Mop" by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. to help straighten out its affairs, still gets $12,750 a year as executive committee chairman of affiliated Denver and Rio Grande, $6,000 as president of Missouri Pacific Trans- portation Co. (bus line). ¶ In Chicago, result of disclosing that he gets $100,000 and has an option on 100,000 shares of Montgomery Ward stock...
...peddle as "gospel" among his flattering cronies. He honestly thinks that Washington is teeming with "inside stuff" which the Press misses and he, as an able citizen, should have. But the Washington scene as it strikes his untrained eye in headlines leaves him dizzy and confused. To straighten out his perspective and give him the facts he does not bother to hunt out for himself in the daily Press is the prime purpose of the Washington letter writer...
...potent, far-flung United Fruit Co. were holding a meeting. Down on the long table in front of his old enemy, President Victor Macomber Cutter, he flung a handful of proxies. Said he: "You've been --ing up this business long enough. I'm going to straighten it out." The Bostonian directorate was profoundly and properly shocked. Nevertheless, before they adjourned they had created a new office- Managing Director in Charge of Operations-and elected Samuel Zemurray to fill...
...worth of policies outstanding and ranked as the biggest life insurance concern west of the Mississippi. Banker Caldwell bought largely into Missouri State Life and then transferred his holdings to Inter-Southern. During the past two years all has not been harmonious in Missouri State Life. To straighten it out, Mr. Barnes placed Kentucky Home's 29% interest in a five-year voting trust which has sufficient other shares to represent control of Missouri State. The voting trust consists of Mr. Barnes, now chairman of the company, William Thompson Nardin, president of the company...
...Gary Cooper), an ex-vaudeville actress (Alison Skipworth) and her husband (W. C. Fields), a condemned murderer (Gene Raymond) are also among Mr. Glidden's beneficiaries, as is a miserable fat clerk (Charles Laughton). This clerk waddles to the office of the president of his concern, pauses to straighten his necktie, then opens the door. What he does next is impossible properly to describe. The last recipient of Mr. Glidden's largesse is Mrs. Walker, the most energetic inmate of an old lady's home. She uses her money to turn the home into a sort...