Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norman Wait Harris, often cited as father of U. S. bond-selling. The bank itself was organized in 1907, with deposits of $3,534,000. The bank's investment affiliate, N. W. Harris Co., was liquidated in 1934 and Harris, Hall & Co. is its logical successor. Edward Bigelow Hall, 49, native of Ishpeming, Mich., graduated from Yale (Sheffield) in 1908, there became a good friend of Harold Stanley, head of the new Morgan Stanley & Co. After reporting for the Chicago Post and Herald & Examiner, Banker Hall became assistant publicity director for the Harris bank, was a crack bond salesman...
...Honolulu last week one of the world's simplest corporations voted to dissolve itself. Known as Pineapple Holding Co., Ltd., its entire assets consist of $37,500 in cash and 500,000 shares of Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd., successor to an earlier company of the same name founded by James D. Dole in 1901. As all the holding company does is to hold, it reports no income, no outgo, no profit, no loss. It was formed in 1932 (along with the present Pineapple Co.) to straighten out the tangled affairs of the Dole company, which had grown long...
...such a bad fellow and had besides saved Mr. Grant's life earlier in the picture (Claude Rains tries hard with this part, but it's hopeless). The solution is obvious. The unnecessary husband was simply shot by the natives, after a manly scene of reconciliation with his successor...
...successor to Edward Sanford Martin '77 who retires after fifteen years in "The Chair," Do Voto steps into the oldest editorial post in America, begun in 1853 under the editorship of George William Curtis and continued from 1900 to 1920 by William Dean Howells...
...Director Kemp; the other by President Alphonso Lynn Ivey. After a 14-hour session, which ended at 1 A. M., the Kemp slate was in, the Ivey slate out. And Richmond observers thought that Mr. Ivey would also be out as soon as the new directorate could pick his successor...