Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Alfred Carl Fuller of Hartford, Conn., president of Fuller Brush Co.; by Mrs. Evelyn W. Fuller; in Reno, Nev. Charge: mental cruelty...
...that investment trusts should be compelled to reveal their holdings from time to time so stockholders may know what is being done with their money. Bankers went further, said that hereafter brokerage houses should not be allowed to run investment trusts. Although a new management-which includes Matthew Chauncey Brush, president of American International Corp.; William Frye Cutler, vice president of American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co.; Clarence Dauphinot, president of Frederick H. Hatch & Co.; Philip De Ronde, president of Hibernia Trust Co.; George Kenan Morrow, chairman of Gold Dust Corp.-has taken hold of Prince & Whitely Trading Corp., the situation...
...beginning, before the North had collected itself and learned how to fight, Stuart's cavalry had the edge over the Yankees. But every brush cost him some irreplaceable men and horses. Besides skirmishes he was in every big battle in the East: first and second Manassas, the Seven Days' Battle, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Antietam, the Wilderness. When McClellan invaded Virginia, Stuart's 80-mile, 24-hour raid across his rear with 1,800 troopers and four guns established what Capt. Thomason thinks is a record: "I know of no equal exploit in the cavalry annals...
...first conference ever held on the problems of adolescence, conducted at Cleveland last week by the Brush Foundation and Western Reserve University, served to show how little is known about the profound physical and mental changes which occur as children turn into adults...
...that once a student turns away from the aesthetic, college regulations prevent his ever returning to a study of art. He cited the story of a man who disapproved of his son's artistic leanings so sent him to Harvard Law School to prevent his ever returning to the brush and easel. The system was effective, Russell adds, as the youth could never recover his touch after his three years of "mental slavery" under Harvard law professors...