Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep the profit motive working around his Philadelphia plant, Philco's former president, James Mortimer Skinner, always insisted that the company buy back its stock when holders retired or died, then redistribute it as a bonus to younger men. For this purpose Philco paid life-insurance premiums on its big stockholders amounting to upwards of $100,000 a year. This was a steady drain on company cash. Meantime stockholders, however loyal, sometimes wanted cash, a market. Last week 26 of the largest put up 175,000 shares (20% of their holdings), Philco put up 150,000, the public...
...Much, Steve Forbes (George Brent), comes to a better end. Disillusioned with the law when he sends an innocent man to the chair, he reacts to this experience by keeping as many guilty men away from it as he can until reformed by the example of a noble younger brother. High point in the picture, as it was in legend the low point in the career of Lawyer Fallon, is a scene in which he tosses off a vial of poison before the jury to show how harmless the State's evidence is, hurries out of the courtroom after...
...Mary Lamb became a devout Mohammedan. Even then her nerves were high-strung: she was much upset when her Grandmother Field remained an Unbeliever. But Mary soon found a new interest: from the names on gravestones she began teaching her younger brother, Charles, the future author of the Essays of Elia, his letters...
...businessman, and before Philadelphia, businessmen were far from unanimous about him. Within his own utility industry (which has never been able to agree on a spokesman), many a big holding-company executive either backed a rival candidate at the convention or stood aloof. What put him over was the younger, more or less progressive, executive-suburban group in all industries ($4,000 and an Oldsmobile up) who, with the enthusiastic help of their wives, were not too politically cynical to get out and fight for their...
From undergraduates and younger alumni came boos, hisses, cries of "Throw...