Word: vails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite pastime of Steamship Magnate Bruce Vail (Colin Clive) is tormenting his wife (Jean Arthur). When she threatens to put an end to his diversion by divorce, he sends his chauffeur (Ivan Lebedeff) to her rooms, plans to trap her in the servant's arms, nullifying the divorce under the English statute that the complainant in such a suit must remain blameless during the six months between the provisional and final decrees. In the next room Paul Dumond (Charles Boyer) hears the fracas, ends it by knocking out the chauffeur. When the obsessed husband and his witness enter, Dumond...
...catastrophe sequence comes when Irene and Dumond, hearing an innocent man has been arrested for Dumond's supposed crime, start back to Paris on a Vail liner making its maiden voyage. To imperil them. Tycoon Vail phones his captain to strive for a record crossing, in spite of pea-soup fog and icebergs. The disaster, supervised for seafaring technique by Sea Captain Frederick Fleugal and for special effects by James Basevi (San Francisco), is a reproduction of the sinking of the Titanic. The best shot in the picture-the horrible apparition of the fatal berg through...
...President John Calvin Willever. Now 71, Mr. Willever has been with Western Union longer than any man now in active service. The name J. C. Willever has appeared on every Western Union blank since 1916-more than 5,000,000,000 times. In 1910, when the late Theodore N. Vail blazed into Western Union for a brief term as president, Mr. Willever al ready had the longest service record of any major executive. For years he had been trying io sell the Night Letter to his company. Mr. Vail let him have his way, added the Day Letter himself...
...institutional series began 28 years ago in the day of the late Theodore N. Vail, first president of the Bell System. Though a friend & contemporary of all the economic buccaneers of the late 19th Century, Theodore Vail was smart enough to see that a new day was dawning. Squarely he faced the fact that A. T. & T. was a monopoly but boldly set out to convince the public that a monopoly, at least in the telephone business, was a good thing. U. S. industry has grown far more monopolistic than it was in the trust-busting era in which...
Chase National Bank's Assistant Cashier Mary Vail Andress reported that the ratio of investments to loans in Federal Reserve member banks had risen from 44% in 1925 to 150% in 1936. "From my reading of Biblical literature I infer that Eve was created for Adam's express company," observed Miss Andress. "From my readings of financial literature I infer that commercial banks now exist for the express purpose of financing Government deficits...