Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room on the eighth floor of its Chicago administration building was held a corporation's annual meeting for which the build-up had been long & loud. The horrid-sounding charges which Joseph I. Zook, as head of a self-appointed stockholders protective "association," had been hurling at Montgomery Ward's management insured good attendance. Even the Armour brothers, Philip and Lester, dropped in to pick up a few pointers from Ward's quick-witted President-Chairman Sewell Lee Avery...
When his option on 100,000 shares of Ward stock at $11 per share was criticized, he explained that a ''committee" had offered it to him and he had merely said: "Satisfactory." With Ward selling last week at $28 per share Mr. Avery already has a $1,700,000 paper reward for hoisting the company...
Sweepers for the Kirkland boys will be; cox, William J. Cantelmo '35; stroke, John L. Ward '34; 7, C. Jerome Forbos '36; 6. John F. Ducey, Jr. '36; 5, Bartlett K. Thorogood '35; 4, Edwin H. B. Pratt '36; 3, Alvin R. Sweeney, Jr. '35; 2, John L. Clark '36; and bow, Gardiner Pier...
Neither Mr. Untermyer nor Mr. Pecora had reckoned on Senator Carter Glass, who was loth to see his ward, the Federal Reserve Board, in the role of margin clerk to the nation. Few days later the peppery little Virginia Senator marched into the Banking & Currency Committee, whose headlined sessions he is usually too busy to attend, and jammed through an amendment creating a separate stock exchange commission to administer the whole bill- just what President Whitney has been demanding. A thumping victory for the bill's opponents. Senator Glass's revolt cleared the way for thoroughgoing revision...
...well-filled bar testified to the popularity of Mr. Sharkey's Tavern. When asked what drink seemed to satisfy the taste of his patrons most regularly, he answered, "Well, I guess Ward 8 sells about as much as any other. Whiskey goes pretty well too, and most of the customers that come as far as Canal Street can take it straight. Of course, during the day, most of the boys have to go easy and we find that the usual standby is beer." Contrary to popular belief, the Sharkey Special punch is not named after this famous pugilist...