Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent a citizen as Motorman Walter P. Chrysler was last autumn fined in Federal Court for failing to have his duck stamp on his hunting license (TIME, Nov. 9). But when Chaplain Phillips revealed the identity of his ignorant companion, Warden King tipped his hat. "I'll take your word for it, sir," said he, and respect fully rowed away...
Last September Manhattan's big, busy J. Walter Thompson advertising agency launched its star account, Standard Brands, on a new radio venture. The Chase & Sanborn (coffee) division of Standard Brands had scored heavily on the air with Major Bowes and his amateurs. Then Walter P. Chrysler bought the Major away, at a time when many admen thought his peak of popularity was passed (TIME, June 22). It was up to the Thompson agency to top radio's top show in a year when novelty and unusual program ideas were being demanded in no uncertain terms by broadcast sponsors...
...honoring him at a private dinner in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel last week. With Senator Pat Harrison as honorary chairman and Senator James F. Byrnes as toastmaster, the list included Postmaster General Farley, Presidential Secretaries McIntyre and Early, Senators Barkley, Copeland, Davis, Duffy, McAdoo, Tycoons Walter P. Chrysler and Gerard Swope...
...Lewis let General Motors feel his whip when 2,450 employes of its Fisher body and Chevrolet assembly plants "sat down" at their jobs in protest against discharge of a U. A. W. employe. In Detroit. 1.500 employes of National Automotive Fibres, Inc. (floor mats, cushions, door panels for Chrysler and others) struck against discharge of ten U. A. W. workers, went back next day with the unionists reinstated, a 5?per-hour pay raise won. In Eau Claire, Wis. 2,000 jobs came to a halt when Gillette Rubber Co. (tires & tubes) was shut down by a strike...
...Home last week from a 36,466-mile round-the-world business trip by air, during which he arranged for U. S. planes to fly regularly between Manila and Hongkong, Juan Terry Trippet 36, president and general manager of Pan American Airways, was elected a director of Chrysler Corp. Not because he is a heavy stockholder, not because Chrysler is becoming interested in aviation, young Mr. Trippe was invited into the No. 3 motors directorate because Walter P. Chrysler, who often sees his neighbor and tenant at lunch in the Cloud Club atop the Chrysler Building, believes in surrounding himself...