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John A. Sullivan '38 and Robert M. Grubbs '39 took the negative on the question, "Resolved: That the National Labor Relations Board should be empowered to arbitrate all industrial disputes." Bernard Lisman and Walter Glass upheld the affirmative for Vermont in a no-decision debate...
...that a drastic reorganization is the company's only salvation, promptly resigned. Most of the directors including General James Guthrie Harbord, chairman of Radio Corp., Matthew Scott Sloan, onetime president of New York Edison, Chairman Frank Bailey of Prudence Co., also quit in disgust. With Director Frederick J. Lisman's resignation went a strong demand for an investigation by an impartial stockholders' committee...
...Chicago the principal witness against the barge line was Frederick J. Lisman, white-haired Manhattan banker, traction promoter, author of the long-shelved Lisman Plan for a Chicago subway system. His glasses trembling indignantly on his thin nose Banker Lisman exclaimed...
From a duck hunt General Ashburn returned to New Orleans last week in fighting trim. He denounced Banker Lisman as an "unqualified liar," called him a "paid railroad lobbyist" declared that Mr. Lisman had had to apologize for similar statements last summer just when he (Ashburn) was about to sue for defamation of character. According to General Ashburn, all testimony in Chicago was part of a "railroad plot" to discredit his barge line. In the barge line's latest (1931) annual balance sheet, General Ashburn reports a net operating income of $298,756 and a deduction from cash revenues...
...name of the new corporation is Consolidated Merchandising Corp., and is a merging, through F. J. Lisman & Co. (investment bankers), of important vending machine manufacturers: Automatic Merchandising Corp. of America (United Cigar Stores has a large share in this one); Sanitary Postage Service Corp. (its machines sell one and two cent stamps in 30,000 drug stores, ten postoffices); General Vending Corp. (36,000 ubiquitous automatic weighing machines) ; Hoff Vending Corp. (Wrigley gums, Life Savers candies); Seher Mack Corp. of America; Remington Service Machines, Inc. Remington Arms Co. is to manufacture these mechanical merchants...