Word: chapin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman James Henry Rand Jr. of Remington Rand, Inc. (office equipment) informed Secretary of Commerce Chapin in an open letter that he had instructed his purchasing department to buy immediately $4,500,000 of raw materials for use over the balance of the year. Wherever possible Remington Rand will place contracts for next year's consumption "based upon an anticipated business increase...
...head the Commerce Department, closest to his heart of all executive agencies, President Hoover turned to Detroit, picked breezy, bustling, ambitious Roy Dikeman Chapin, board chairman of Hudson Motor Car Co. Long have Mr. Chapin's friends known of his yearning for high public office. Now 52, he started as a youngster in Ransom E. Olds's automobile factory, photographing Oldsmobiles for the catalog. At 24 he was the Olds sales manager, drove the first car from Detroit to New York in one week, the tonneau piled high with spare parts. He helped organize the Hudson company, became...
...Secretary of Commerce is a typical high-pressure salesman, called to Washington to sell U. S. business the idea of economic recovery. Most Cabinet officers, including Mr. Lamont, have lapsed into cautious silence after.being badly burned by fruitless predictions of rapidly returning prosperity. Undaunted by their experience, Mr. Chapin last week began his job even before he took office by rushing into print with a splurge of economic good cheer.* To spellbound newshawks he ejaculated...
...Secretary Lamont go because the Chicagoan was of small practical help toward carrying Illinois. Mr. Lamont's Cabinet service was quiet, plodding, unspectacular. The President needs a more active, hustle- bustling figure to dramatize any business recovery, no matter how small, which might come before election. Mr. Chapin's appointment not only seemed to clinch Michigan for the Hoover-Curtis ticket but, of more importance, to open the automobile industry's money bags to the G. O. P. campaign...
...cloistered little world of girls' private schools in Manhattan, recent years have brought marked changes. Two of the most exclusive, Miss Chapin's and Brearley, have expanded into large plants uptown on the far East Side. Oldest (40 years) and most aristocratic Miss Spence's School has been endowed, incorporated, dropped the Miss. It too has acquired a big new uptown plant at gist Street near Fifth Avenue. Founder Clara B. Spence has been dead nine years. Her successors, Miss Charlotte S. Baker (1923-29) and Miss Helen Clarkson Miller (1929-32) resigned before attaining comparable fame...