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Much talk centred on Fox Film Corp. People wondered when the vacation of Vice President and General Manager Winfield R. Sheehan would end, if at all. Edward Richmond Tinker who suddenly became president of Fox last November after a long career as a banker with Chase National, left Manhattan for his first official visit to Hollywood. Certain contract cancellations on his part caused much bitter comment on the lots. Undertone to all Fox gossip was the story that William Fox will again obtain control of his company...
Edward Richmond Tinker, 53, president of Interstate Equities Corp., was made president of Fox Film Corp,, succeeding Harley Lyman Clarke who became .chairman...
...Banker Tinker is 53. His career has been varied. In 1920 he became president of Chase Securities Corp. and in 1925 chairman of the executive committee of Chase National Bank and Chase Securities Corp. In 1927 he suddenly resigned and practically retired from active business. Two years later he accepted the presidency of Interstate Equities Corp.. an investment trust sponsored by Banc-america-Blair. Fortnight ago Interstate was sold to youngish Wallace Groves, an independent capitalist who got his start in the small-loan business, but Mr. Tinker remained as president...
Rumor that Mr. Tinker represented William Fox, attempting to buy control of his company again, were scouted. Of his friendship with Mr. Clarke there was no doubt and it was thought that he represented a compromise between putting a100% Chaseman in the presidency or leaving Mr. Clarke as president. Banker Tinker is familiar with Fox's set-up through his position at Interstate, for the investment trust bought many Fox and General Theatres Equipment securities. Although it is odd for a cinema company not to have a cineman as either chairman or president, observers pointed out that...
...Banker Tinker ("Ned" to friends) has a big place on Long Island's Jericho Turnpike where he raises pheasants and other birds but seldom shoots them. He is a director of Transamerica, Barnsdall Corp., Curtiss Wright, Sinclair Consolidated Oil, Knox Hat Co., Long's Hat Stores, Kaskell & Kaskell, U. S. Hat Machinery Co.. White Motor Co. and several others...