Word: wrigley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wrigley...
Died. William Louis Veeck, 56, president of the Chicago Cubs; of leucocythaemia: in Chicago. Fourteen years ago the Cubs' owner, the late William Wrigley Jr., rubbed raw by withering criticism administered almost daily in Sportswriter Veeck's column, called him in and sarcastically offered him the job of running the club. Veeck accepted. During his tenure the Cubs won two pennants, lost both World Series...
...life plan by 20% of the man's income." Lives known to be insured for $1,000,000 or more include those of Motorman Walter P. Chrysler, Scripps-Howard's Roy Wilson Howard, Harvey Samuel Firestone, Cineman Will Rogers. Some jumbos deceased since 1923: Julius Rosenwald, William Wrigley Jr., John Thompson Dorrance...
Philip Knight Wrigley...
...borrow and otherwise sacrifice. I am very willing, and intend to turn over all my assets to liquidate the remaining amounts which I may owe so that I may. unencumbered and unmolested, devote myself from now on to the interest of making better motion pictures." ¶ William Wrigley Jr. Co. declared four dividends on its chewing gum business- one payable in each of the next four months-at the extraordinary rate of 26 30/95? per share. Not so complicated as it looks, the new rate will result in stockholders getting a monthly dividend of 25? per share as formerly...