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...distress. His relief formula : Each community must rely on local charity and help itself, with not a penny from the Federal Treasury. Though nothing was to come from Washington but advice, sympathy and cooperation, President Hoover held another round of conferences with such notables as Bernard Mannes Baruch, Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., Charles Hayden. A Cabinet committee was appointed "to formulate plans...
...Alfred Pritchard Sloan...
...stir the imagination. At the current market his 649,518 shares would be worth over $23,000,000, a vast sum for one man to have in one enterprise. Next in line come George Fisher Baker Jr. with over $6,000,000 worth of stock and Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. with $5,700,000. In most companies any man who owned over half a million shares of voting stock could be pointed out as a controlling factor, but not so in General Motors. The company has 43,500,000 common shares outstanding; Mr. Mott's staggering block represents only...
...away the most notable of corporate achievements was the second-quarter showing of General Motors Corp. Industrialists and financiers hailed it as the product of President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.'s shrewd managerial ability and the driving sales force of Richard H. Grant whose radiating enthusiasm built Chevrolet's sales from 314,000 cars in 1924 to 1,001,000 in 1927. Although during the June quarter GM sold 2.5% less cars than in the corresponding 1930 period, the net income of $55,122,000 was $1,736,000 higher than in 1930. For the half-year...
When Sir William receives his D. C. L. degree he may mutter casually his favorite expression: "Not too bad, not too bad!" And he may reflect that his potent U. S. competitors Henry Ford, President Alfred Pritchard Sloan of General Motors, John North Willys, Walter Percy Chrysler, Errett Lobban Cord, have no such degree...