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...Three. Meanwhile, the Big Three have grown bigger & better. Chrysler, which last summer moved Walter P. Chrysler to the chairmanship and elevated Kaufman Thuma Keller to the presidency, made $18,000,000 in the first six months of 1935. nearly twice its earnings for the full year of 1934. Nine-month sales for the Chrysler group totaled 488,625 cars, about a 40% increase over the 1934 period and about 23% of all U. S. sales. The stock has been a big favorite in the current bull market. On April 1. 1935 it sold at, 34, closed last week...
...motorists know the names of the three men who rank just below Alfred P. Sloan in the management and operation of General Motors: William S. Knudsen, Donaldson Brown, Charles F. Kettering. Not so well known are the three topnotch assistants of Walter P. Chrysler: K. (for Kaufman) T. (for Thuma) Keller, Fred Morrell Zeder, B. Edwin Hutchinson. Engineer Keller was hired from General Motors by Walter Chrysler in 1926 to consolidate the manufacturing plants of Dodge Bros. He stayed on to become Chrysler vice president in charge of production. Mr. Zeder was chief engineer at Studebaker in 1924 when...
Died. Joseph Thuma ("Joe") Schenck, 38. tenor half of "Van & Schenck," variety's, famed, "highest-salaried" ($3,000 weekly) male song team; suddenly, of heart disease; at Detroit...
Twenty years ago, passengers on the Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, carline used to ride past their destinations, beguiled by the vocal harmony which the trolley's crew furnished. August Van Glove was the motorman, Joseph Thuma Schenck the conductor. Later they bolstered their act with a piano which Conductor Schenck played; entertained professionally in the back room of a saloon, then in smalltime vaudeville houses (their first appearance was, perforce, in overalls), then in big-time vaudeville theatres as "Van & Schenck-the pennant-winning battery of songland." Favorite Van & Schenck numbers: "When You're a Long, Long Way from...