Word: chandlerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transport were really a poker game, Player Philbin would need a substantial stack of blue chips to back his express ace. They have been supplied by "strong financial interests." Three of the backers were learned last week: Chandler Hovey, socialite, yachtsman, senior partner in Kidder, Peabody & Co. (Wall Street investment house); Arthur S. Jackson, of Jackson Bros., Boesel & Co. (Chicago brokers) ; and Frank Phillips, petroleum tycoon whose gas & oil will fill the tanks of Air Express Corp.'s ships. First aide to President Philbin is his vice president in charge of traffic. James G. Woolley, a plump, profane hurricane...
...list of these students follows: M. A. Benson '33, C. H. Bruce '33, E. A. Chandler '33, J. J. Cianio '35, H. M. Graff '34, J. T. Lees '33, R. H. Fackard '33, F. W. Roberts '33, Michael Saparoff '33, H. B. Slade '33, G. R. R. Wahl '33, D. F. Wilcock '34, Willoughby Mercer '36, M. A. Olson '36, F. J. Sullivan '36, and M. E. Averill...
...train Mrs. Mollie Brown Carran of West Branch who was widely publicized as his first school teacher (TIME, Oct. 17). Mrs. Carran promptly rejected the "first" claim, explained that she was only the first teacher her pupil, aged 10, could remember before he went West. She named Mrs. Elizabeth Chandler Sunier of Iowa City as the person who started Herbert Hoover's education. Interviewed last week, Mrs. Sunier declared: "Did I think Bertie would be President? Of course I didn't and I wish they wouldn't call him Herb. . . . There was none of this first...
...shippers used to congregate by the dozen in George Carpenter's ship-chandlery, grown now to deal in mill and railroad supplies. But the Carpenter name has outgrown the business. People all over the U. S. are becoming acquainted with the music of John Alden Carpenter, the late Chandler George...
Eagles fly high and newspaper history is made fast in Mobile, Ala. Less than five years ago Ralph Bradford Chandler left the Birmingham Post (Scripps-Howard), descended on Mobile, began publishing the Press (evening) in competition with the Register (morning) and News-Item (evening), both owned by Col. Frederick Ingate Thompson, onetime member of the U. S. Shipping Board and an unsuccessful Senatorial aspirant in 1930. Last February Publisher Chandler got control of both Thompson papers, killed the News-Item, settled down to enjoy his monopoly. From Florida, last week, came a competitive threat...