Word: taylors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colorado Springs' No. 1 philanthropist and art-lover is Mrs. Fred Morgan Pike Taylor, a broker's widow, a St. Louis sack-&-bag man's daughter, who gave the Fine Arts Center $600,000 for a building, enough to endow it with $100,000 a year. Designed by Architect John Gaw Meem of Santa Fe, it is massive, severely functional...
...judges in the debate here were Francis J. O'Hara, headmaster of the Thorndike School, Paul R. Bishop, director of the Bishop Lee School, and Frederick B. Taylor '99, Boston investment broker. The chairman was Moses O. Ware, formerly of the faculty of Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford...
Steel. For U. S. Steel's annual meeting Chairman Myron Charles Taylor and a battalion of executives, clerks, lawyers and pressagents piled into a Manhattan subway one morning last week, dived under the Hudson River to Hoboken, N. J. where U. S. Steel maintains its legal residence. Among stockholders awaiting Mr. Taylor's arrival was one William Snelling, a knickerbockered 14-year-old from Allentown, Pa. who said he was in the ink business with his younger brother. Having bought one share of U. S. Steel for $30 in 1932 and watched it climb to last week...
Aside from hearing that Chairman Taylor had as yet arrived at no definite plans for payment of U. S. Steel's $58,000,000 preferred dividend arrears, Stockholder Snelling learned little about his company that he could not have found out from published sources. Mr. Taylor's address was largely confined to sonorous generalities on the past & present of the Corporation. "In times of peace and war," intoned the handsome, dignified chairman, "it has advanced American corporate practice upon the road to ultimate perfection...
...stockholder thought that the company was still short of perfection, objecting bitterly to the salaries of Mr. Taylor ($161,000) and President William A. Irvin ($102,000). Instead of offering in rebuttal the noteworthy fact that Steel's ratio of total executive salaries to average profits has been among the lowest in the land, Mr. Taylor declared: "I think that many of us take too narrow a view on the whole salary question. I do not like anyone to attack the salaries that this corporation's executives receive. I resent...