Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enterprise. In the famed Herreshoff Yards at Bristol, R. I., almost simultaneously with Shamrock V against which her backers hope she will race, workmen with a donkey engine gently lowered and launched the Enterprise, first and smallest of four yachts planned by rival U. S. syndicates to contend for the honor of defending America's cup. Awaiting Enterprise at City Island, N. Y., was "the biggest mast ever stepped into a sailing craft of any kind anywhere." Her backers: Harold Stirling Vanderbilt. Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Vincent Astor. George Fisher Baker Jr., Ogden Livingston Mills. E. Walter Clark, Floyd Leslie...
...Philadelphia bosses the eastern end of the State. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon and his nephew William Lorimer Mellon in Pittsburgh administer the western end. When the U. S. Senate refused to seat Mr. Vare, Governor John Stuchell Fisher, a Mellon man, appointed Joseph Ridgeway Grundy of Bristol, arch-lobbyist for the Tariff, active raiser of campaign funds. Long used to dictating to politicians though never before a large officeholder, Mr. Grundy greatly enjoyed his transition and soon regarded himself as the G. O. P. boss of the whole State. An upright Quaker, he scorned Boss Vare. Solidly...
Coins denominated the puffin and half-puffin-respectively worth a British penny and half-penny-have just gone into circulation among the 40 dwellers on Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, also called "Puffin Island." Both half and whole puffins bear the likeness of Martin Coles Harman, Esq., London merchant, who bought Puffin Island in 1925 and plays at being its king. On the "tails" side of a puffin is the head of a puffin (sea bird with a parrotlike beak and white cheeks). Puffin Islanders also have puffin stamps. red and green, in puffin and half-puffin de nominations...
Frank A. Black, Vice President and Publicity Manager, William Filene's Sons Company. Boston: Don Bridge, Advertising Director, Indianapolis News, Indianapolis: Lee H. Bristol, Vice President, Bristol-Myers Company, New York: Allan Brown, Advertising Manager, Bakelite Corporation, New York: Ray H. Griswold. The Griswold-Eshleman Company. Cleveland; Robert L. Johnson, Advertising Manager, Time. New York; William A. Kittredge. The Lakeside Press. Chicago: Bernard Lichtenberg, Alexander Hamilton Institute, New York: Joseph Platt, Art Director, Delineator, New York: Raymond Rubicam. Inc., New York; Melvin T. Copeland. Professor of Marketing. Harvard Business School; Neil H. Borden. Associate Professor of Advertising. Harvard Business School...