Word: branches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers finally yielded his mother-in-law's missing darning needle. A doctor found it by X ray, managed to cut it out of where it had disappeared to when Rickey...
Brooklyn Dodgers Boss Branch Rickey* ('04) and the 41 other trustees knew what they were getting. Able Administrator Flemming, an Ohio Wesleyan man himself ('27), has been a trustee for six years. He is a leader in the Federal Council of Churches, a Sunday-school superintendent, the father of five...
...Flemming was named by President Roosevelt to the Commission, he became the second youngest member in U.S. history (younger: 30-year-old Teddy Roosevelt). Flemming also served on the War Manpower Commission, is now a member of the new Hoover Commission (set up by Congress to study the executive branch). At Ohio Wesleyan, President Flemming plans to teach a course in political science, hopes to get more "first-rate" graduates to go into politics...
...Managing Editor Dystel, 35, got his M.A. at Harvard Business School (1937). During the war he worked for OWI, edited the propaganda magazine U.S.A., worked with the Army's Psychological Warfare Branch. In his new job, he is supposed to make Collier's step lively; he is unlikely to step on any toes...
...million stock issue. He had paid $10.5 million for Bonwit Teller, Inc., then sold the store's buildings to the Equitable Life Assurance Society for $6.3 million and rented them back for $320,000 a year. He put some of that money into a new $2.2 million Chicago branch which he sold to Prudential Insurance Co. of America, and leased back. Another $800,000 was spent transforming Boston's historic old Natural History Museum into another Bonwit Teller branch. In Cleveland, he has leased a downtown building (Lindner Coy's) for a new store next year, bought...