Word: backus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wales scholarship, James B. Ford 2G, James Walker fellowship, Arthur F. Smullyan 1G, Christopher M. Weld scholarship, William S. McCauley, Fletcher School. Whiting fellowships to: Alfred H. Kettler, University of Texas. Wayne L. Lees 1G. Willard scholarship, Richard Ballinger, University of Texas. Jay Backus Woodworth fellowship, Ernest E. Wahlstrom, University of Colorado...
Meanwhile in. New York State, law enforcers were aroused over a young couple who had been illegally married since Jan. 15-Stanley Backus, 18, and Leona Roshia Backus, 12. Armed with a marriage license giving Leona's age as 18, and with their parents' approval, the couple had been married in Carthage by a Methodist named Rev. William K. Bradshaw who, like every one else concerned, was deceived by the bride's appearance. She weighs 112 lb., looks mature in grown-up frocks. Last week a medical examination showed her to be pregnant, and according...
Died. Edward Wellington Backus, 73, Minneapolis lumber & paper tycoon (Backus-Brooks Co.) ; suddenly, of heart disease; in Manhattan, which he was visiting on business. Taken to the prairies as a child during the Civil War, he started in business with 3,000 borrowed dollars, eventually ruled a $100,000,000 empire that included banks, power, telephones, railroads. Unable to refund a bond issue in 1931, tall, tough President Backus lost control. Last January he fiercely started a comeback in the form of a suit to dismiss his receivers for mismanagement (TIME...
...amounts, and finally a total investment of $50,000,000. Why should I not strive to rehabilitate this organization which has been my life work?" Thus did the septuagenarian founder of big Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. lately write the unhappy holders of his defaulted bonds. But Founder Edward Wellington Backus was unhappier than his bondholders. Unable to refund a bond issue, the $100,000,000 paper company in which he owned 90% of the common stock passed into receivership in 1931. Founder-President Backus was later ousted as sole receiver by bankers who put in two of their...
While the grain pits were still ringing with the tale of a trapped bull, they were startled by an echo from the past-the sound of a bear trapped five years ago and still clawing at the trap. In Chicago's U. S. District Court, President Edward Wellington Backus of Backus-Brooks Co. (lumber) of Minneapolis filed suit against President Gustavus Franklin Swift of Swift & Co.. Allen F. Moore (onetime Republican Congressman from Illinois), Herbert J. Blum (oldtime grain operator). His charge: that in 1928 he sold short 950,000 bushels of July corn, that they and others...