Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medical student. During office hours he wears a white surgeon's jacket and carries a gold-plated stethoscope. In his office are floodlights for taking pictures, a small dark-colored desk and a narrow four-poster bed. On a wall is a picture of the Boy Christ in the Temple...
...world and the merchandising policies of Simmons. In 1934 the City of Grand Rapids hired an industrial engineer to survey the possibilities of reopening Berkey & Gay. Grand Rapids businessmen went into a huddle with promoters. Promoter Frank Donald McKay, who had worked in Grand Rapids furniture factories as a boy. had a long string of organizations and reorganizations to his credit. Poker-faced, astute, potent in Michigan politics, he served as State Treasurer (1924-30), says that politics is his hobby, that he gives "95% of his time to business, 5% to politics...
...past year must also have set something of a record for the number of deaths among insurance presidents. Many insurance personnel changes occurred for other reasons. Leroy A. Lincoln violated a company up-from-office-boy tradition by stepping into the presidency of Metropolitan Life, world's biggest life company, after Frederick Hudson Ecker moved up to the newly-created post of chairman. President Lincoln entered Metropolitan as general attorney in 1918. The same progression occurred in Connecticut General Life, where Frazar B. Wilde was promoted from a vice-presidency after Robert Watkinson Huntington was made chairman. In Pacific...
...accidentally shot and killed by his good friend Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., on a North Carolina hunting trip last winter (TIME, Feb. 6). Mr. Law's successor was William Harmstead Kingsley, who started in the company as an office boy in 1885 after graduation from Philadelphia's Girard College...
Thomas Stearns Eliot is a St. Louis boy who went to Harvard, and beyond. Not a particularly shining light in an undergraduate world that included such firebrands and footlights as the late John Reed and Walter Lippmann, he polished his post-graduate lamp to such purpose that he became Poet Laureate of the Lost Generation. His famed Waste Land has stood like a lighthouse against which whole flocks of sophisticated blues-writers have dashed themselves in vain emulation. When Poet Eliot expatriated himself to England, there were few disapproving murmurs from his followers. But when he publicly renounced agnosticism, announced...