Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in the same manner Gen. Dawes rushed out of the vice presidency with a farewell speech in which he swung his arms, shot his cuffs and shouted that he took back nothing he had said about the Senate rules. This time it was Charles Curtis and his little vice presidential speech that the Dawesian diatribe dwarfed. But where embarrassment was four years ago, there was only laughter this time. It was a self-burlesque, a Dawesian jape...
...delegates of the Conservative Party Congress who had unanimously chosen Worm Rowlands as "Chairman," next chose as a "Vice Chairman" the world's biggest Steamship Tycoon, Baron Kylsant...
Next came an article by Paul M. Hollister, a vice president at Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. Mr. Hollister asked a hypothetical question. What, said he, would happen if publishers, who have already freed their pages from patent medicine advertising, should now refuse to accept any testimonial advertisement that was not certified as unpaid for and voluntary? Mr. Hollister predicted that such a procedure would cause anguish among many agency men charged with formulating campaign ideas, would also grieve Park Avenue females who would be deprived of "their most profitable racket...
...officers are concerned, Commerce gets the board chairmanship, Guaranty Trust the presidency, as James Strange Alexander, chairman of the board of National Bank of Commerce, and William C. Potter, president of Guaranty Trust, will retain their positions with the merged bank. Charles H. Sabin, board chairman of Guaranty, becomes vice-chairman of the board in the new organization. He will also be full board chairman of Guaranty Co. (the investment subsidiary of Guaranty Trust Co.) which will function for the combined institutions. The merger appears to have swallowed up 49-year-old Stevenson Ward, Commerce president, who figures...
...spite of day and night study, however, he advanced slowly. After 23 years he was only assistant cashier. Then, however, came a brief absence, a marked advancement. Mr. Alexander left Bank of Commerce, spent nine months as American Express treasurer, was called back as vice president (1908). In 1911 he was made president, in 1923 became board chairman...