Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, directors of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. gathered at their routine monthly meeting last week for a duty that was far from routine. They elected a new president, Leroy A. Wilson,* 47, to run the largest business enterprise in the world. Walter Sherman Gifford, 63, who has headed the company for 23 years, moved up into the vacant board chairmanship...
...change, said new President Wilson, took him "completely by surprise." Just as surprised was the business world outside A.T. &T. Beyond his own vast company, lean, friendly Leroy August Wilson was not well known. Manhattan's financial writers, scrabbling through their files, found no mention of him. But they found ample evidence in A.T. & T. annals of what Leroy Wilson had done...
Semipro. In the. last year, A.T. &T. has raised more than $1.1 billion in new capital, for the biggest expansion program in its history. Wilson, a vice president, had put the program through at a time when many another corporation was finding the capital market sticky. It was one of the big reasons he was picked when Walter Gifford decided that he would like to step aside. An easy talker, with a good memory for faces and names, new President Wilson is an impressive example of copybook maxims put into practice. "If you know what you're fitted...
...Terre Haute, Ind., Lee Wilson turned the crank on the old projector, and later played the piano, in his father's small movie house. He also had a paper route and he played cornet in the Methodist Church orchestra. To pay his way through Rose Polytechnic Institute (in Terre Haute), he shoveled iron ore, laid track for a railroad, and later played semi-pro baseball Sundays and nights...
...elected 40-odd-man national board encompasses all of labor minus the Harry Bridges-led splinter of the CIO as well as the young men in the Democratic Party and the now minority-representation of independent liberal citizens. Here enter Reinhold Niebuhr, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ex-housing expediter Wilson Wyatt, and movie star Ronald Reagan. Eleanor Roosevelt looms a power behind the scenes. This total coalition's impressiveness stems from the fact that it is influence mobilized with the sole immediate political end of isolating Henry Wallace. To do this job and to elect congressmen who meet "progressive" standards...