Word: block
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul McNutt is on a limb, it is not his friends' fault. It is Franklin Roosevelt's-or McNutt's own for trying to block Roosevelt at Chicago in 1932. Ever since then Paul McNutt has been polite to the New Deal, but also ever since then Jim Farley has called McNutt a platinum-haired so-&-so, a feeling which is mutual...
...this has been done no Ford employe knows for sure, but most could hazard a sound guess: the furrow is to be preserved for posterity to look at; it will be included in the intriguing mass of Ford memorabilia which includes Luther Burbank's shovel (thrust into a block of concrete), a reproduction of the hole in the ground in Menlo Park, N. J., where Thomas A. Edison and his helpers threw their laboratory junk...
...died in 1926, Brigadier General Thompson, full of honors from long service, had long since retired from the army to become chief advisory engineer of Auto-Ordnance Co. Chief financial backers were Capitalist Thomas Fortune Ryan, who held 51% of the stock, and George Harvey, who held a smaller block. Onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Harvey went to his grave soft-pedaling his interest in the company which sold 750 choppers to the Irish Republic, to be used against British soldiers...
...biggest turnover in Richman employes is due to retirements. A woman cook in the cafeteria retired recently, after 13 years of service, with $30,000 worth of Richman stock, a savings account of $3,500. About the same time a tailor with a larger block of stock, a house fully paid for, retired after 25 years of service, to make room for someone else. Today the market value of stock held by Richman employes is about...
...bought the turreted Potter Palmer house which occupies nearly a block on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, hung it with Rembrandts and Christys (Howard Chandler), dubbed it the Bendix Galleries and lost it after paying $1,250,000 on its $3,000,000 purchase price...