Word: chester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Job, in dramatizing Bar Chester Towers, has altered the storytelling, removed the bite, like the gentlemen who dramatized Pride and Prejudice, Madame Bovary. Trollope's Barchester Towers smacks appreciative lips over the pettiness of an English cathedral town, controlled by Mrs. Proudie, a mean woman and a real woman, wife of its weak-minded bishop...
...months ago when the business curve was still on the rise, Chairman Colby Mitchell Chester of General Foods Corp. addressed the Boston Chamber of Commerce. Speaking not only for the makers of Grape Nuts, Post Toasties and Sanka Coffee but also, as head of the National Association of Manufacturers, for a vast and potent slice of U. S. management, Mr. Chester concluded with this prophetic declaration...
...patient Mr. Chester and the rest of U. S. Management the wait was short. In August the business curve shot into the most precipitous toboggan since 1907. There have been a few cacklers in the rear rows but for Mr. Chester and all other responsible U. S. businessmen the Recession was entirely too serious for gloating. They expected trouble, though not so soon, and if it was welcomed at all it was only in the sense that they hoped it would drive home to the Administration and the public the obvious fact that Capitalism cannot function indefinitely without the confidence...
...event's 42-year history. For this year's session of the Congress of Industry has aroused more interest, both business and political, than any since N. A. M. was founded in 1895. It did so because most of its members believed the opportunity predicted by Mr. Chester-the moment when Recovery leadership would be transferred or passed by default to Business- was clearly at hand...
...Typical of the N.A.M. "progressives" are men like President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp., Henning Webb Prentis Jr. of Armstrong Cork, Tobaccoman Williams, Chairman Thomas Wilson of Wilson & Co. and, curiously, Steelman Ernest Tener Weir. And for official leadership they hit upon another new face, Colby Mitchell Chester, who had not only grown to national stature during Depression but also brought a new and needed viewpoint to the N.A.M. council table-that of consumer industries. Unlike his N.A.M. predecessor, the late Clinton Lloyd Bardo, who built million-dollar ships for a few billion-dollar customers, Colby Chester sells...