Portrait of Lou Wolfson the Great Liquidator
A 1932 fall day frames Lou Wolfson's rise from a Georgia football hopeful to a Wall Street power broker. The piece traces his junkyard roots, the 1949 Merritt Chapman takeover, and his 17-corporation reach including Capital Transit and New York Shipbuilding, while noting critics' charges of raiding and lavish dividends. Wolfson defends his record, credits hard work, and eyeing a bid to dominate Montgomery Ward with a billion-dollar goal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery Ward
Chicago
Montgomery Ward & Co
Wall Street
Wolfson
Sewell Avery
New York
Merritt, Chapman & Scott
Florida
St. George
Woolfson
Wolfgan
Bosn
Merritt
Chapman & Scott
New York Shipbuilding. Co
Justice Department
Federal Grand Jury
Louis Elwood Wolfson
Wolfson Syndicate
Merritt, Chapman and Scott
Jacksonville
Fla
Georgia
Yalé
Morris D
Pop” Wolfson
Posvol
Russia
Lou Wolfson
Sam
Florida Pipe and Supply Co
Sam End
Monogram Pictures
Hollywood
Tampa Shipbuilding Co
Tampa
St. John's Fiver
Milllion
Hardbitten Sewell Avery Faces Fight at 80
Chicago profile documents Sewell Avery chairman of Montgomery Ward as he faces a power challenge from Louis E Wolfson. It chronicles his 28 years of rule, past battles with JP Morgan, and his stubborn expansion stance, noting aging pressures and Ward's cash reserves while detailing his blunt, precise leadership style.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Louis Wolfson
Montgomery Ward
Target
Sewell Avery
Louis Elwood Wolfson
Hardbitten Sewell Avery
Chicago
Spe
Montgomery Ward, & Co
Avery
J.P. Morgan and Co
Ward
Todz Yiche
Louis E.wolfson
Ward's
Wilbur Norton
Boston
Stuart Ball
Ball
Archbishop of Canterbury to Speak at Yale Tuesday
The Most Rev Geoffrey Fisher Archbishop of Canterbury will address Yale Divinity School opening exercises at Battell chapel on Tuesday afternoon. He will join four other world religious leaders in receiving honorary degrees as Yale marks its Divinity school's 133rd year. The ceremony includes an old campus procession and diplomas for Archbishop Michael, Bishop Dibelius, Dr Devanandan, Alan Paton, and more. Yale President Griswold confers Doctor of Laws and Divinity degrees at the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Geoffrey Francis Fisher
Canterbury
Yale Divinity School
Yale
Battell Chapel
Michael
Greek Orthodox Church
North
South America
Mtto Dibelius
Germany
Evangelical Church
Paul David Devanandan
Department of Literature and
Council of Y.m.c.a’s
India
Pakistan
Ceylon
Alan Paton
Liston Pope
Divinity School
Sidney Lovett
Henry Knox Sherill
Episcopal Church
Yale, Will Present the Five Dezcencipients. President A. Whitney Griswold
Yales
Archbishop of Canterbury
Dibelius
Devanandan
Paton
Sherrill
World Council of Churches
Evanston
Illinois
Presidiu N
University
Red Cross Offers First Aid Instructors Course
The Red Cross will offer a first aid instructors course starting Wednesday. Classes will meet Monday and Wednesday evenings at 7 30 at Bridgeport chapter Headquarters 271 Park Avenue. Individuals holding current advanced first aid cards are eligible and for more information call ED 50191.
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The
Red Cross
Bridgeport
Park Avenue
Red. Cross
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Roger D. Greene
University ‘of Georgia
Lou
Low Wolfson
Kefauver
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Fuller Warren
Warren
Washington
Capital Transit Co
Wolfner Syndicate
Senate
Payne
Maine
Wolfson Group
Capital Transit
Thomas A. Scott, T
New York Shipbuilding Co
Florence
Biscayne Bay
Miami’ ‘Beach
Washington Senators
Washington Redskins
Dragnet
Acbig
Eisenhower
Elkin B. Gilbert
Seriouness
Junkman
Touchy
Rye
By William Ferris
the Inancier
Saginaw, Mich
University of Michigan
Sum
Alabaster, Mich
United States Gypsum Co
Ward’s
J.P. Morgan. & ‘Co
the Cradle
Adoption’ Agency
University of Chicago
Old, Liberty League
Alf Landon
J. P. Morgan & Co
Morgan
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Compener
Barry Scott
Coederereater
J. H. Hale
Stepney
Lakeview Orchards
Rl.s. - Easton Stepney Rd
Tradi
Sodak
Koda
Kokachrome
Pavell
Fritz & Hawley
Main Street
Fiders
Fabulon
Golden Hill ST
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