Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that time Lang Williams was 27 and too young-he decided-to be Freeport's president. But from the vice president's chair he saw that officers' salaries were cut 30%, that expenses were pared all around, that dividend rates were lowered. (In 1928 the company had paid $6.50 a share, earned only $4.49.) By 1933 Lang Williams was 30 and old enough to be president. Baltimore Financier Eugene L. Norton, who had held the job "in trust" for him, stepped down and Williams stepped...
...Hero. Having sworn to tell the whole truth, and promised to defend himself when and as necessary, Oliver Naquin in the witness chair produced a hero whom the press had overlooked: Chief Electrician's Mate Lawrence James Gainor of Honolulu. Forty-year-old Lawrence Gainor was on duty near one of the Squalus' two battery compartments. While the after compartments were flooding, Lawrence Gainor braved a fiery arc, crawled between the melting, short-circuited cables, disconnected the switches, and so prevented fire which undoubtedly would have cut off more of the Squalus' crew from rescue. His performance...
Died. Edward Sandford Martin, 83, old-school epigrammatist, author and editor, who founded The Harvard Lampoon (1876), Life (1883), occupied "The Editor's Easy Chair" on Harper's Magazine (1920-35); of injuries after a fall; in Manhattan...
...draught, abolition of the tax on passengers, 50% rebate for ships in ballast. But they are not worried enough to sponsor the Italian demands for an international commission to run the Canal. They want no Axial partner sitting over the life line, even in a director's chair...
...Krohler Manufacturing Co., Iowa Painter Grant Wood designed an overstuffed, tasseled, neo-Victorian chaise longue (see cut). Blurbed Painter Wood: "This chair was conceived in comfort and dedicated to the principle of utter relaxation. I hope you like it." With each chair goes a color reproduction of his Woman With Plants...