Word: vauclain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Amelia Vauclain, granddaughter of President Samuel V. Vauclain of the Baldwin Locomotive works; and Francis Tatnal of Germantown, Pa.; in Bryn Mawr...
...list of investors in the Floranada Club was indeed polite: Mrs. Stotesbury, Mrs. Dodge, the Countess ef Lauderdale, Mrs. Alexander Biddle, Samuel Matthews Vauclain (president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works), John Sargent Pillsbury (vice president of the Pillsbury Flour Mills...
...marketwise the fact that the Fisher brothers of Detroit, onetime owners of Fisher Body Corp. lately incorporated into General Motors Corp., had waged successful battle for representation on the board of directors of Baldwin Locomotive Works, of whose common stock they own 120,000 shares, a controlling interest. Samuel Vauclain, President, opposed to the Fisher brothers, was prevailed upon to allow them two places on the board. The importance of their victory was. diminished by President Vauclain's success in enlarging the Board from 12 to 15 members,* thus reducing the proportionate value of the two seats that will...
...Angeles. This train constituted only a part of one order filled that year by the Baldwin works, a new herd of 50 freight movers for the Southern Pacific R.R. Hitching the monsters together and delivering them all in large groups was a publicity stroke conceived by Samuel M. Vauclain who has put on the selling end of his business a head of steam proportionate to the pressures carried by his latest products...
...Samuel Vauclain learned to love locomotives, the way other men love horses, as an apprentice in an Altoona (Pa.) roundhouse which his father superintended. He learned to build them at the Baldwin works in Philadelphia, rising in 36 years from foreman to president. He has never given up his workingman's habit of reporting for work at 7 a. m. But it is as a salesman that he has chiefly succeeded. He sold locomotives in Europe when people thought Europe was too War-poor to pay for anything. He took his pay in oil, bonds. Once he sold...