Word: apt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curt and Julius. One is in the sales department, another in the manufacturing, a third handling finances. They were trained on sheep ranches, in mills abroad, in banks. In memory of a fourth son he established the Carl Forstmann Memorial Foundation in 1922. It lends and gives money to apt children of employes. It helps families in sickness, runs a night school for employes and their families. Despite this paternalism, and despite the fact that many Forstmann workers are more skilled, hence higher-paid, than the general run of mill workers, the Forstmann company has not escaped the labor troubles...
Herbert is the more conspicuous of San Francisco's two famed Fleishhacker brothers and is generally thought to take the lead when they confer on mighty matters. People know him better because he is always doing things that command attention, because he is the one apt to be found at teas or dances when his brother Mortimer is at home reading...
...Hapag" offices at No. 39 Broadway Mr. Lederer has a street-level office, walls hung with pictures of famous liners which have flown the blue, white and yellow "Hapag" flag. He speaks with an accent which becomes marked when he gets excited. This is apt to be frequent and employes dread "E. L.'s" wrath although they know it is always justified. Legend is the story that one day he overheard a prominent Manhattan lady arguing about rates. After listening awhile he rushed up and bellowed: "Veil, do you want to buy the ship?" Startled, she mended her behavior...
...Knew Coolidge" (by Sinclair Lewis) was a talkative gentleman apt to buttonhole you in the smoking car. The Man Who Sued Coolidge-Lewis Tebbetts of St. Louis-is 48, 6 ft., 170 Ib. His hair is thinning on top. He has been married 17 years. He likes colorful ties, and flashy suits. He likes to take his wife to a roof top, study the stars. He also likes to invent things, has sold some. He is a free lance in the insurance business, being helped greatly by his aggressive personality and eloquence. He considers himself a leading advocate of "term...
...utilities the chairman is more apt to be a financial man. Floyd Leslie Carlisle, close to National City Bank, holds the chair of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York while Banker John Edward Aldred has that position in Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & Power Co. of Baltimore. Samuel Insull is chairman of Middle West Utilities and his brother Martin president. Chairman Bernard Capen Cobb of Commonwealth & Southern is an operating man but he has spent many years in a Wall Street house...