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...where he was made first sales manager, then general manager of distribution, finally general manager of the company. When, two years ago, Paramount-Famous-Lasky became Paramount-Publix, Mr. Kent was made a vice president. From then on he kept a finger in every department. As a salesman and distributor he gained the confidence of the exhibitors and when the Government upset the "uniform standard contract'' in 1930 he was instrumental in having the 5-5-5 conference (five independents, five chain exhibitors, five distributors) reach a new agreement. Members of the conference still recall his fluent arguments...
...years George Armsby had been vice president of J. K. Armsby Co. with headquarters in San Francisco. The firm had grown until it was the biggest packer of California dried fruits, biggest distributor of salmon, second biggest distributor of California canned fruits and vegetables. He decided that one big firm combining all functions of the industry, amalgamating big competitors, should be formed. To do so he had to convince some one that he should lend 16 million dollars...
...Trouble of a different sort beset Ballyhoo and its distributor American News Co. in a pending Federal suit of United Cigar Stores Co. of America charging conspiracy in restraint of trade. Reason: American News Co. refused to supply United Cigar stores with copies of Ballyhoo unless they would take some of the less successful magazines also...
...time in Wall Street. Partners come and go, firms merge, dissolve, start up. Most notable change of last week was Kidder, Peabody & Co.'s absorption of old Kissel, Kinnicutt & Co. Formed 66 years ago in Boston, Kidder, Peabody was long famed as a conservative New England banking house and distributor of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. shares. In 1930 the partnership was dissolved, the business liquidated. New men & money came forward, took over the old name. Both Kidder, Peabody and Kissel, Kinnicutt hold memberships in the New York Stock Exchange although the former has not occupied its seat. Kissel, Kinnicutt...
Died. Milo Merrick Belding, 66, one-time (1912-25) president, and son of one of the founders of Belding Bros. & Co., largest silk thread manufacturer and distributor in the U. S. before it was merged in 1925 with Heminway Silk Co.; of heart disease after an attack of bronchitis; in Manhattan...