Word: willard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next Mr. Bennett considered the doings of Frank Willard's banjo-eyed, derby-hatted Moon Mullins and his friends Kayo, Emmy and Lord Plushbottom. "When you get down to the others," Mr. Bennett grumbled, "I do not know whether Moon Mullins adds greatly to the store of knowledge of young and growing children. I am not an authority on that...
Last week for the third time in a seven-year rise to riches, Charles Willard Young founded a Manhattan investment counsel firm. His first was Young & Ottley, launched in 1929 with the financial aid of a fellow Yaleman named James Henry Ottley. Young & Ottley promptly established itself by calling the stock-market crash. In 1933 young Mr. Young pulled out of Young & Ottley, moved from Manhattan's Chanin Building diagonally across 42nd Street to the Chrysler Building. There with new backers, notably James Cox Brady, Mr. Young set up an-other investment counsel firm called C. W. Young...
...yellow-covered pamphlets have appeared in U. S. bookshops in the past two years amid loud fanfare. First was Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas' The Coming American Boom, a breezy contribution to U. S. economics which sold 27,000 copies at $1.50 each. Next was Inflation Ahead by Willard Kiplinger and Frederick Shelton, which sold 71,000 copies, at $1. The third Simon & Schuster pamphlet was Your Income Tax, a slapdash $1 handbook offered agitated taxpayers about a month before the last Federal income tax deadline. That sold 79,000. Last week another $1 yellow pamphlet appeared called...
...Knowles, Charles W. Lawrence, Adrian F. Levy, Roger C. Lyndon, John D. Maloy, Lewis H. Mills, Robert H. Morse, Henry S. Mowbray, Robert D. Nuner, Schuyler Pardee, Constantine W. Patterson, S. Allen Pendleton, George W. Phillips, Benjamin Pitman, Jr., Edward P. Richardson, Jr., Edward H. Schoyer, Paul P. Selvin, Willard P. Sheppard, Jr., Edric B. Smith, Jr., Gray Taylor, Elkan Turk, Jr., George S. Viereck, Jr., Hugh G. Williams, David B. Wire, Richard Witkin...
...ground down newsprint prices from the post-War $110 per ton to a Depression $40. Short on profitable U. S. contracts, long on overhead, Price Bros. defaulted interest payments on its bonds in 1932. Promptly mustered was a bondholders' protective committee chairmanned by Boston's W. (for Willard) Eugene McGregor, who had been with Harris, Forbes & Co. when that banking house marketed the Price Bos. bonds to the public. Last week Banker McGregor earned the rare distinction of having protected his bondholders so well that they will get 100? on the dollar and back interest to boot...