Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better suited to present the public image of trust and integrity fostered by the funds than Dwight Robinson. He is the very model of a Proper Bostonian, from his steel-rimmed spectacles and dark, conservative suits-he always wears a vest in the office -to his clubs (Union, Longwood Cricket) and his finely polished sense of discretion...
After the monthly trustees' meeting last week, 350 officers, employees and guests of Manhattan's Union Dime Savings Bank gathered at the Hotel Pierre to celebrate a gala occasion. Union Dime was 100 years old, and over the years it had gone from piggy-bank size to the nation's 15th biggest mutual savings bank with deposits of $485 million. In a way too the party was in honor of a man. At 66, Union Dime's President John Wilbur Lewis had spent 48 years at the bank, helping it grow and growing with it until...
...temptation with Jack Lewis was to call him a banker's banker. He was that -careful, conscientious, orderly minded, a worker who went to Union Dime right after high school in West Orange, N.J. and trudged through the business from messenger to bookkeeper, from assistant head bookkeeper to assistant secretary, from assistant treasurer to treasurer to vice president to executive vice president and finally, in 1948, president. He dressed like a banker, in severe greys and blues, lived where the bankers live, out among the rolling lawns and towering oaks of Short Hills. He married, raised two children...
...York's Institutional Investors Mutual Fund, an open-end stock fund for mutual savings banks that now has assets of $46 million. With it all, he was an easy man to work for: friendly, outgoing, a delegator of responsibility who enjoyed calling his staff "my family." Says one Union Dime executive: "I've never gone to any convention or dinner where the greeting wasn't 'How's Jack Lewis...
Died. Carl Holderman, 65, longtime (1918-54) New Jersey union organizer, once described as "the movie idea of a genial Texas oilman"; of a heart attack; in Newark. Holderman was an early C.I.O. organizer, later headed the New Jersey C.I.O., was appointed state commissioner of labor and industry in 1954 by Governor Robert B. Meyner, cleaned house at the scandal-ridden labor department...