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...handwriting, President Farrell's statement said his resignation had been accepted by the board to take effect April 18 but that he would remain a director. Surprised were the steel trade and Wall Street because his retirement would have been automatic, under the company's new pension plan, when he became 70 years old on Feb. 15, 1933 (TIME, April...
...year and a half ago I begged you to let me return to the ranks without asking position or pension. You responded with an order to remain. I obeyed then, as was my duty. But today. . . I must repeat that wish. . . . Duce, permit therefore that I return into the ranks . . . with the proud consciousness of having served...
...Editor Grey portrays him as a smart inventor but a poor businessman; an extraordinary testpilot but utterly lacking in tact? "quite capable of going to a managing director and telling him that if he really wants to make money out of aeroplanes the best thing he can do is pension off his chief designer just for the sake of keeping him away from the Design Office...
National was unquoted although its average price is $17,000 a share. San Francisco Bank carried bank buildings & lots, other real estate and pension funds at $1 each although their actual values are one million times $3. Mellon National Bank pays an annual dividend of $200 plus a "Christmas bonus" of $6 a share...
...Lionel Musgrave, United States Senator," collected $800,000 from British sportsmen before he found it wise to depart. In Ceylon his fame spread when he swindled an Indian jewel merchant out of a basket of gems worth $250,000. In 1913, before Philadelphia police closed "The National Old Age Pension Bureau," he had made $50,000 more. As old age came upon Mr. Woodward he looked back upon a varied and profitable career, estimated that he had made $4,000,000 in operations on four continents, sat down to write his memoirs. Proudly he has called himself "the dean...