Word: automan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seasoned campaigner (never out of training for the past 27 months), the small (15.2 hands), broad-backed bay colt, familiarly known as The Biscuit, is a seasoned tourist as well. Last week's trip was the fourth time he had crossed the continent since his owner, San Francisco Automan Charles S. Howard, bought him two years ago at Saratoga from the late Ogden Mills...
...sell at 25? each. Its author: California visionary Upton Sinclair, who wrote The Flivver King ". . . because I am sick of seeing lies enthroned and ruling the world." A novelized biography of Henry Ford, The Flivver King contains no startling new facts, presents several little-known, lively anecdotes. Sample: When Automan Ford was in the midst of his Jew-baiting campaign, he selected Cineman William Fox as a victim. Cineman Fox promptly ordered his innumerable, widespread newsreel photographers to photograph all wrecks in which Ford autos were involved, record the grisly details, get from experts affidavits stating that Ford defects were...
...conference with Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the White House went Walter P. Chrysler accompanied by his local dealer. As he departed, News Photographer Maurice Lanigan snapped his picture, took advantage of the opportunity to complain that his Chrysler car was giving trouble. Automan Chrysler turned to his dealer. Said he: "Fix this...
...Tammany Hall. By his election a Congressman for the first time became boss of Tammany. Expected was a shake-up of Democratic plans to recover control of New York City from Fusion Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia who is up for re-election next fall (TIME, Aug. 2). Left, By Automan Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudson Motors), onetime (1932-33) U. S. Secretary of Commerce; an estate of $7,311,616. After the deduction of minor bequests, one-third goes to his widow, Mrs. Inez Tiedeman Chapin, the other two-thirds to his six children-three hoys and three girls...
...took 24 hours to set the Durant dish-washing tale straight. Though declaring himself bankrupt last February, Automan Durant is no down-&-outer, still maintains offices on Park Avenue, weekends on a $100,000 estate at Deal, N. J. President of Deal Gables Corp. (real estate), he owns a one-story building in North Asbury, which was built as a salesroom for Durant cars ten years ago. Concessionaires opened a food market there last December, did so badly that one by one they had to close up. Last month Landlord Durant took the place in hand, later announced the opening...