Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last fortnight a group of leading market operators held a dinner, voted that American Tel. & Tel. will be the stock to show the greatest gain in 1930. Last week leading statisticians and market analysts of prominent stock exchange firms banqueted. Their votes recorded the following predictions...
...answer to this reflection upon their company, last week Moon stockholders voted down the seven old directors by enlarging the board membership to 15, adding eight new members who therefore have control. The new group is composed of the interests who recently sold Moon the Ruxton, front wheel drive. Unwilling to be ousted, the old officials protested, threatened legal action...
...group took control of Chicago Great Western.* Leaders are Patrick H. Joyce, onetime President of Standard Steel Car Co., and John W. O'Leary, President of National Bank of the Republic. At the annual stockholders' meeting the group elected Mr. Joyce chairman of the executive committee and Bernard E. Sunny, of General Electric, board chairman. New by-laws were passed giving President V. V. Boatner entire control of operation and Mr. Joyce and the Executive Committee control of finance. As railmaster of the Great Western Mr. Joyce succeeds the late Samuel M. Felton, who dominated the road as president...
...Henri Deterding, head of Royal Dutch-Shell oil group, arrived in Manhattan from Europe with his wife to be present at the opening of the San Francisco Shell Oil Building. Of his company's price-cutting conflict with Standard Oil in the Far East said he: "A French philosopher once said that a dog is the most dangerous animal in the world because when it is attacked it bites. We are never asleep and we never give up. What we have we intend to keep...
...Founder Smith led a group of Mormons out of Ohio into Missouri, set tled in Independence (Jackson County), historic point of departure for wagon-trains taking the Santa Fe, Old Salt Lake and Oregon trails. He proclaimed the new Jerusalem. Two years later the Mormons were brusquely ushered out of the county, scattered through the state...