Word: beardsley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right Note. The planeloads of guests for the opening would include Actress Alexis Smith, oldtime Star Gloria Swanson, Eastern Air Lines President Eddie Rickenbacker, R. H. Macy's Beardsley Ruml, David Rockefeller and Julius ("Cap") Krug. But none of the party-goers would enjoy the round of banquets, swimming parties and tennis tournaments as much as their party-loving, party-giving host, Conrad Nicholson Hilton, the world's No. 1 hotelman, who this week was getting his first excited look at his newest hotel...
...Sample membership: James F. Brownlee, chairman of the Business-Education Committee of the Committee for Economic Development; Mrs. Bruce Gould, co-editor of the Ladies' Home Journal; Lester B. Granger, executive director of the National Urban League.; Leo Perlis, national director of the National C.I.O. Community Services Committee; Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the board of R. H. Macy & Co.; Richard Joyce Smith, chairman of the Board of Education of Fairfield, Conn.; James A. Stevenson, president of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. The full committee will total...
...inauguration in January was a great occasion in San Juan. One of the most notable facts about the ceremony was the presence of an imposing list of U.S. bankers and industrialists, including Macy's Beardsley Ruml and David Rockefeller of the Chase National Bank...
...winner and probable next governor was grey, husky William S. Beardsley, a veteran state representative. Before the campaign, Beardsley was little known outside his home county, where he runs a drugstore at New Virginia (pop. 450) and manages his 900-acre farm. Burly (5 ft. 10½ in., 200 Ibs.) Bill Beardsley got around to picnics and rallies all over the state, paid no attention to the professional politicos. Most Iowans liked his record in the legislature. He had fought the governor on school legislation, had opposed Blue's stringent labor laws. When the returns came in, Bill Beardsley...
Many U.S. radio listeners are dissatisfied with the programs that commercial radio gives them, but don't like the idea of Government-controlled broadcasting either. In recent years a group of well-fixed pioneers (among them: Adman-Diplomat William B. Benton, Economist Beardsley Ruml, Educator Robert M. Hutchins) have been proposing another alternative: Subscription Radio (TIME...