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James E. Cline, of Glens Falls, N. Y., as Assistant in Chemistry; Thomas G. Webber, Jr., of Edgewood, R. I., as Assistant in Chemistry; Gerald F. Gilmore '36, of Wayland, as Assistant in Fine Arts; George E. Downing, of Chicago, Ill., as Assistant in Fine Arts; Willard M. Bright, of Toledo, Ohio, as Assistant in Chemistry; Edgar H. Clark, Jr. of Forest Hills, N. Y., as Assistant in Economics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTY-THREE OBTAIN UNIVERSITY POSITIONS | 10/21/1938 | See Source »

...private citizen, and the Southwest's No. 1 private utilitarian (Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Power and Light Companies). In 1926 he bought Louisiana and Arkansas Ry. for $10,000,000, In February 1937, for a rumored $2,250,000 he picked up working control of K.C.S. from Paine, Webber & Co., which got control after a bitter fight with Leonor Loree. Since then Wall Street has been expecting a merger and last week Harvey Couch produced it. He announced that K.C.S. would issue 210,000 shares of common stock to exchange for stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fourth Proposal | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

George Williams Webber, Des Moines, Iowa--Roosevelt High School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 243 Freshmen From Everywhere Win Scholarships | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...Herbert J. Webber, a University of California citrus expert, traveled through the Mediterranean countries, brought back a few citron buds. Some of these he gave to Edwin Giles Hart, an enterprising fruitgrower who was then trying to raise other citrus fruits in La Habra, Calif. Onetime miner and realtor, Edwin Hart has always hunted for new things to produce. He started experimenting with avocados in 1905. Eventually tackling citron, he discovered that it could survive California's climate when grafted to the rough lemon. Three years ago he produced some 10,000 lb. of citron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lemon Graft | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Defendants' method of capture, as described by Mr. Ballantine, more or less boiled down to these three main points: 1) Control of an investment trust called First Income Trading Corp. was bought with money borrowed from Paine, Webber and repaid from First Income's own assets. 2) Control of Continental was bought from the Schroder bank by the same methods, but in an involved transaction between a) an Ontario enterprise known as Fiscal Management Company Limited, b) First Income, c) Continental, d) Schroder, e) Paine, Webber. 3) Control of Reynolds was bought from the Reynolds family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Puzzle Started | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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