Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bone in his foot a year ago and got back into the lineup in time to help his team win the pennant. More discouraging to Manager Charles Grimm has been the failure of his new pitchers to round into shape, though he has a staff of able veterans-Malone, Bush, Root, Warneke -to fall back upon...
...found myself powerless," Irving Bush stormed to the Press. ". . . Mr. Stephens has shown an appalling misunderstanding of the business. He spent $30,000 to get some accountants. They didn't discover a thing I couldn't have told him for nothing...
...management's sole rebuttal was the annual report, published last week. And if Founder Bush knew everything the accountants found out for President Stephens, he had never before troubled to inform his stockholders. President Stephens' report, thoroughly frank, revealed that under Founder Bush's regime depreciation charges had been grossly inadequate, that properties had been allowed to fall into bad repair, that land values had been sharply written up on the books, that $500,000 of property still carried on the books had long since been demolished or abandoned. It showed clearly that profits had been overstated...
...Stephens report dampened Founder Bush not a whit. He triumphantly announced that he had won the proxy "battle." President Stephens, who knows that a drastic reorganization is the company's only salvation, promptly resigned. Most of the directors including General James Guthrie Harbord, chairman of Radio Corp., Matthew Scott Sloan, onetime president of New York Edison, Chairman Frank Bailey of Prudence Co., also quit in disgust. With Director Frederick J. Lisman's resignation went a strong demand for an investigation by an impartial stockholders' committee...
...CASE OF THE APRIL FOOLS-Christopher Bush-Morrow ($2). Ludovic Travers sees jest turned to murder. Blackmail leads to double death...