Word: york
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mr. Collins got a job - assistant to General Manager Julius Ochs Adler of the New York Times, with advertising and promotion as his province. Wags wondered whether the Times's famed slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print" might be changed to "It's Smart to be Newsy.'' Last week Mr. Howard also got a new job - executive vice president of R. H. Macy & Co., the position once held by Kenneth Collins...
Back from a year at Oxford, Barklie Henry worked for the Boston American, Atlantic Monthly, became managing editor of Youth's Companion. Suddenly in 1928 he dropped out of sight. Close friends knew he had a job with New York's Guaranty Trust Co., but the job was so small that Guaranty's telephone operators seldom recognized his name...
...handle not only the fortune he had inherited from his father-in-law but other big sums that came under his control. He became president of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (endowment $20,000,000), a trustee of Cooper Union and council member of New York University, a director of Texas Co. and the U. S. Trust Co., acting president of New York Hospital, committeeman in many a charity drive...
After he went in for a career of good works he made good friends with Walter Sherman Gifford, president of both American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and New York's Charity Organization Society. Last week 37-year-old Barklie Henry was elected a member of A. T. & T.'s 19-man board of directors, filling the vacancy created last fall by the death of Edward D. Duffield, president of Prudential Insurance...
Fortnight ago SEC Chairman William 0. Douglas made a speech urging U. S. Corporations to hire professional directors (TIME, Jan. 23). Last week this advertisement appeared in the New York Times...