Word: barren
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Everett Titsworth Tomlinson Jr., president of Doremus & Co., national advertising agency founded by Clarence Walker Barren, last week resigned. Vice president William H, Long Jr. was elected chairman and G. Munro Hubbard, vice president of J. G. White & Co., utility managers, succeeded to the presidency of Doremus...
...Imitating Barren Collier who compromised with his creditors (TIME, June 12), another overburdened tycoon, cinema's Jesse Louis Lasky, last week filed a debtor's petition under the new Federal bank ruptcy act. He listed assets of $134,000, liabilities of $2,020,000, laid his troubles to having personally guaranteed bond issues for Manhattan's Fifty-Seventh Street Building Co. and Eighth Avenue Building Corp. Said he: "I feel that I have been more than fair with all my creditors, for in order to pay the charges on the properties above mentioned. I have...
Storm clouds scudded low against a livid sky. In the grayness of a November twilight, a long road of sun-bleached pebbles stretched startlingly white across the barren mountain top toward a desolated ledge. The dwarfed branches of scrub oaks rattled against each other in the cold wind, but the two figures progressing toward the ledge had no heed for the night or the wind...
...Engaged, Barren Gift Collier Jr., son of the car-card tycoon who last month sought a "moratorium" on $13,500,000 of debts (TIME, June 12); and Barbara May, Manhattan socialite...
Best known Collier company is Barren G. Collier, Inc. which he founded in Memphis at the age of 17. He was then in charge of the city's street lighting and he grew bored with staring at the wall space in trolley cars. Why not plaster the space with ballyhoo posters? Within a few years the boy was soliciting contracts from trolley owners all over the country. Today his company is the biggest card advertising firm in the world. It plasters thousands of vehicles with posters allegedly seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month. He heads...