Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Admiral David Foote Sellers, 74, onetime Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet (1933-34) and Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (1934-38); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bethesda...
...Like other newsmen, Examiner Managing Editor William C. Wren had known for two years about his columnist's record, but he had not been disturbed. But at week's end, the column vanished from the Examiner. The order to fire Freddie Francisco, said Hearstlings, came from the Chief himself...
...Weather Bureau has little faith in weather control. Last year the weathermen announced that they had tried seeding clouds with dry ice and found the trick does not work (TIME, Dec. 6). Last week the bureau's chief, Dr. Francis W. Reichelderfer, told a Manhattan meeting of the American Meteorological Society and the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences that man-made weather is a very unreliable project. The dry ice method may work locally under special conditions, said Reichelderfer, but the physical forces in full-scale weather are too big to be affected...
PERCY J. EBBOTT, 61, became president of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, third largest in the U.S.* He will share the chief executive duties with Board Chairman Winthrop W. Aldrich. Ebbott's predecessor, Arthur W. McCain, became vice chairman. A ruddy-faced, friendly Midwesterner, born in Fort Atkinson, Wis., Ebbott worked at sales and manufacturing before entering banking, has been a Chase vice president since...
...antagonist was thin, sandy-haired Leonard Lord, who had gone to work for Nuffield back in 1932. He became Nuffield's chief assistant, was in charge of the far-flung Nuffield organization (Morris, M. G. and Wolseley cars, trucks, etc.). But when Leonard Lord showed that he had a mind of his own, Nuffield quickly kicked him upstairs to run one of his many charities...