Corporate Navigator The Life of Frank Manning Covert Tapa dura - 1995

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. 077101709X . B&W Photographs; 9.1 X 6.3 X 1.3 inches; ix, 294 pages; Hard cover is blue with silver lettering on the spine. DJ, small crease on rear flap. Pages are clean and tight; appears as NEW. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 'Frank Manning Covert, OC OBE DFC QC,1908 – 1987, was a Canadian lawyer. ..From 1940 to 1942, he served with the Department of Munitions and Supply and was a protégé of the C. D. Howe. He enlisted in the RCAF in September 1942. On May 10, 1945, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. A well known corporate director, he served on more than 50 corporate boards, including the Royal Bank of Canada. In 1982, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition of having "shown outstanding ability in the field of industrial relations" and "given generously of his counsel and leadership to… Leer más

Toronto, CAN: McClelland and Stewart, Inc., 1995 McClelland and Stewart, Inc., Toronto, CAN. 1995. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square and unmarked but for an acquisition date on the FFFP and a factory stain on the rear pastedown. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to tail and upper tips; slight shelfwear to boards. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($32.99); light bumping to head and upper tips; light rubbing to panels. 294 pp 8vo. In the mid 1950s, Frank Covert was the single most influential corporate lawyer in Canada east of Montreal. In this book, the author charts the life of the remarkable man from his childhood in Nova Scotia to his rise to the number-one corporate lawyer on the east coast of Canada. Famous for efficiency, modest fees, and Herculean work habits he excelled in business law and even took a break in WWI as a navigator on bombing missions with the RCAF over Europe. After the war he was in private practice and a counsel to the Royal Commission on… Leer más

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McClelland & Stewart, 1995. Hardcover. Good.