Word: sugarmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heads the sugar-broking firm of Lowry & Co., one of whose partners is Horace Havemeyer. Partner Have-meyer's father was once president of American Sugar Refining Co.. a company which in 1925 was reported to have offered Sugarman Lowry $100,000 a year to become its president. Sugarmen last week recalled the coincidence that when Mr. Lowry declined, the position was filled by Earl D. Babst who left his job as general counsel and first vice president of National Biscuit...
...increase in quality and strength in proportion to the failure's intensity and duration. The present business depression has brought forth many investigations of the errors which caused it, even of the Capitalism under which it came. "The capitalistic system is on trial," said Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne to the sugarmen of the world at Brussels. "A system . . . under which it is possible for 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 able-bodied men to be out of work . . . cannot be said to be perfect?or even satisfactory," was what Daniel Willard, president of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad told the Wharton School...
...needs sugar, yet exports it because the need for money is greater. Mr. Chadbourne will attempt to obtain a loan on Russian sugar. Said he: "I anticipate little difficulty. . . . United States banks have not lost a cent on Russian short term loans for the last eight years." To European sugarmen this slaughter of the Russian bogey represented an amazing accomplishment. When Mr. Chadbourne embarked he said: "I will return to Europe within six months, after I have had a rest. I have spent the last six months working 15 hours daily, including Sunday. . . . My Cuban friends, fortified by the cooperation...