Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Writers' Project began its monumental task of giving the U. S. a more up-to-date "detail portrait of itself" in August 1935, when WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins picked a bespectacled, slow-speaking ex-lawyer, ex-newspaperman, ex-publicity agent, Henry Alsberg, as national director. The survivor of a helter-skelter career that included editorial writing on the New York Post, a year as secretary to the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey before the War, a post-War job as the Nation's foreign correspondent, a term as director of the Provincetown Theatre, Director Alsberg started...
...year-end sound-offs of industrial leaders and soothsayers. Among the few whose remarks are taken seriously is Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres, vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. Last week Colonel Ayres was not impressed by a 50? rise in scrap prices and the first rise since August in the New York Times business index. Like some M.Ps. in Britain (see p. 14), he predicted mainly gloomy things...
...wage increase through and we'll leave," was the gist of the response last August when a committee backed by Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas ordered 17 U. S. and other foreign oil companies to pay a wage increase of some...
...late Andrew William Mellon spent the last years of his long life at two related labors. One was completed before his death last August. Then Franklin D. Roosevelt graciously accepted his $50,000,000 art donations as the nucleus of a National Art Gallery. The other and more difficult was to clear his name of the charge made by the U. S. Treasury in March...
...week the following were news: ¶ Huge U. S. Steel Corp. has long struggled with what is probably the world's toughest management problem-how to run efficiently an industrial enterprise employing some 200,000 men and $1,800,000,000 in total assets. Last week in the august atmosphere of its headquarters at No. 71 Broadway, Manhattan, another move was made in the grand administration plans which Chairman Taylor hopes to complete before he turns the company over to Chairman-elect Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. next April. A new subsidiary, U. S. Steel Corp, of Delaware, was created...