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James David Mooney, president of General Motors Export Co., was re- elected president of American Manufacturers Export Association. Onetime reporter, onetime assistant editor of American Machinist, Mr. Mooney entered General Motors as assistant to Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. He was put into its Remy division, jumped to president, then shifted to general manager of the export division. When he became head of the export division in 1922, GM was selling abroad about 20,000 cars a year. By 1929 he had shot this figure to nearly 300,000, was selling cars from 23 export centres to nearly every country...
Score--Harvard 6, Dartmouth 4. Goals--First period; Guibord (2.20). Moseley (9.54), Riley (14), Moseley, assisted by lane, (19) Second period: Moseley (13,43), Duffy, assisted by Moseley, (14), McDonald (15.10). Third period: Guibord (1.53), Lane (16), Allen (19.40). Time--Three 20-minute periods. Referees--Mooney, Ayer...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a shrewd, industrious legislator of independent intelligence but devoid of leadership: a good hater who is roundly hated; a voluble Progressive afraid to take a positive stand on the Mooney-Billings case in his own backyard: a would-be President embittered by successive failures: a loud vital force who will leave a large imprint on the Senate, if not U. S. history. His term expires March...
...Stamp ("Our Price Level Problem"), William Trufant Foster ("Is Fiat Money Any Worse than Fiat Poverty?"). Among a group who discussed Mr. Foster's article was gloomy Richard Waldo, president of McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Books reviewed included Wages and the Road Ahead by General Motors' James David Mooney, The Dow Theory by Robert Rhea, The Banks and Prosperity by Lionel D. Edie...
...Delano Roosevelt (post-convention), Charles Spence Chaplin, Anton Joseph Cermak were disqualified as rubber-stamps. Revealed as refusers-to-sign were: George V, Paul von Hindenburg, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, John Davison Rockfeller Sr., Al Capone. Most reluctant (one each) were: Henry Ford, Greta Garbo, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Tom Mooney, Edward of Wales, Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, "One-Eye" Connelly, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Most obliging: Calvin Coolidge, Rudy Vall...