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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Thursday evening, Council Chairmen presented their final reports summarizing their year's work. Some were able to point to a year of worthwhile accomplishments, but others could only outline vague and useless dabbling. In one case, when called upon to report, a Chairman said he didn't have anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Committees | 5/24/1949 | See Source »

Last week, Chairman Sewell Avery finally filled the job with an insider. He was Stuart Scoble Ball, 45, the only experienced senior officer (secretary until last month, when he also became a vice president) who had remained true to Avery and, up to now, had always got along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flowers from Avery | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

When President Ball took over his new office last week, Chairman Avery sent him a bunch of roses with a note: "With affection and confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flowers from Avery | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Father & Son. Amm-i-Dent is made by Jersey City's little-known Block Drug Co., founded 42 years ago and still very much bossed by taciturn Pharmacist Alexander Block, now 67. As chairman, Block cracks the whip over a family team-sons Melvin, 41, who is president; Leonard, 37, who handles the money, and daughter Betty's husband Albert Roberts, production boss. Together they boomed Block Drug to a gross of more than $10 million last year on 25 dental products (Poloris dental poultices, Polident denture cleaners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: The Teeth of Battle | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Senator Bourke Hickenlooper (R-lows) demanded yesterday that David E. Lillenthal resign as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission for "incredible mismanagement." Lillenthal promptly replied that the nation's atomic "preeminence" is the answer to the Senator's vague and ungenerous wholesale indictment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Defense Secretary Forrestal Kills Self in Leap | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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