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First warning of trouble came three months ago when the board of trustees suddenly ousted three of their number: Edward G. Budd, famed builder of automobile bodies 'and streamlined trains; Ernest T. Trigg, a conservative paint manufacturer; and Rev. John Archibald MacCallum, a liberal Presbyterian pastor and oldtime friend of Founder Conwell. Soon ex-Trustee MacCallum began to make charges. For no obvious reason, eminent Surgeon W. Wayne Babcock of the medical school jumped into the fray with countercharges. Their cat-&-dog fight was joined by Dean Parkinson, Realtor-Trustee Albert Monroe Greenfield, perennial storm centre of Philadelphia business...
...That it was Greenfield, Budd, Trigg and MacCallum who had tried to oust President Beury...
...seven years ended 1939, Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. made more stir with its streamlined trains than anyone else in the field. But it lost money in the process. Now Budd is busy making ammunition parts, body assemblies for bombs, other war materials-and money. September-quarter profits were $99,000, up from $402,000 loss last year. Full-year earnings will be the largest since...
...Fort Worth's Junior Chamber of Commerce. To celebrate the inauguration of a new streamlined train (Texas Zephyr) this week between Dallas, Fort Worth and Denver, the Junior Chambermen had planned an elaborate ceremony with General Motors' famed vice president, Inventor Charles Kettering, as principal speaker. Mr. Budd and his unrelated namesake, Edward G. Budd, streamlined-train maker, were to be on hand too. Last week the ceremony was abruptly called...
That was Dallas' cue. If Fort Worth wouldn't be hospitable, Dallas would. This week Dallas businessmen and civic leaders arranged a monster ceremony to greet F. W. & D. C.'s new Zephyr. Their guests of honor: Fort Worth's Rejects Kettering, Budd, Budd...