Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To succeed Northern Pacific's late Charles Donnelly is the job of big (225 Ibs.), reserved, ironhanded Charles Eugene Denney (59), taken from the presidency of the bankrupt Erie. It was the late, smart Railroader John J. Bernet (chief operating officer for the Van Sweringen railroad empire) who first...
Cut-&-dried is the election of A. B. A. presidents. Anything but cut-&-dried is its newest one, Robert March Hanes, 49, president of Winston-Salem, N. C.'s Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. (largest bank between Washington and Atlanta; deposits: $91,000,000). Fond of quail shooting, lively parties...
When the crop came to market late this summer, prices staggered "under the surplus. By September 8, farmers were in a funk; the bellowing auctioneers were knocking down the tobacco at 14½?. Then Britain's big Imperial Tobacco Co., which normally buys a third of the flue-cured...
Immediately, indefatigable Henry Wallace called a conference. All through the South, the sheepish growers wondered what their ransom was going to be. North Carolina's big, handsome Commissioner of Agriculture William Kerr Scott suggested sadistically that the markets be reopened, the farmers left to squirm. Henry Wallace announced in...
The German theme is the familiar one that Britain is an imperialistic aggressor, but the favorite targets have been Britain's inept Ministry of Information (see p. jp) and Winston Churchill. Berlin last week caught Britain red-handed in a BBC report of the torpedoing of the freighter Royal...