Word: alex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress' banquet there were further alarms. President S. Wells Utley of Detroit Steel Casting Co. prophesied: "This coming campaign ... is one of the great decisive battles of the human race, and upon it hangs the future of our civilization. . . ." President Alex Dow of Detroit Edison Co. rambled through the question of the relations of women with business. The program closed on a foreboding note. Mme Alexandrine Cantacuzene, granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, talked on "Property Confiscation under a Revolutionary Government...
Three goals by Alex Thompson gave the Yale lacrosse team a 5-3 victory over the Crimson here Saturday. With Pete Hunsaker, Jim Wood, and Bob Scott on the scoring end the home team put up a struggle...
Bury the Dead (by Irwin Shaw; Alex Yokel, producer) made its author famed before it was given a full-fledged production. A 23-year-old Brooklynite, Irwin Shaw had previously distinguished himself chiefly as a third-rate semiprofessional football player and writer of the "Dick Tracy" radio child thriller. Last autumn he heard about the radical New Theatre League's play contest. Bury the Dead was not finished in time to compete, but Playwright Shaw took his script to the League's Manhattan headquarters when he completed the fiery paean against war. A pair of tryouts...
...issue, Mr. Dunn's staff rises from four to as high as 35. The extra help is not paid. Friendly banks and bankers in Manhattan send around experts to assist him. Until last year Federal Land Bank issues were distributed by a syndicate headed by Baltimore's Alex. Brown & Sons. But the last four issues were taken directly by Mr. Dunn, though the same banking group still assists in distribution, is paid a straight commission for its sales & services...
...obscurity when he stage-managed the Roosevelt pre-election junket to Georgia. With the rise of Eugene Talmadge, Hugh Howell was made chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committee. Brother Hugh did not forget his older brother Alexander, a country schoolteacher, who soon became State School Supervisor. Last autumn "Alex" was also put in charge of WPA Project No. 1744, in which a number of idle girls were employed gathering public school records for the past 15 years. Last month when the anti-Roosevelt Congress of "Goober Democrats" gathered at Macon (TIME, Feb. 10), on each & every seat...