Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crawford got off a letter to Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer demanding Virden's resignation. Three days later, Virden, a quiet, capable Cleveland manufacturer who called himself "almost violently anti-atheist-Marxist," resigned. His dark-eyed daughter Euphemia was indeed employed by Tass, as a clerk and teletypist. An earnest, idealistic girl, she had gone to Sarah Lawrence College, became interested in Marxism. No amount of argument or entreaty from her father had done any good. So far as he (and the FBI) knew, she was not a card-holding Communist. But when she took the Tass job, Virden...
...world of the comics was never the same after two Cleveland teen-agers turned Superman loose in it. In 15 years, he made over $400,000 for Writer Jerome Siegel and Cartoonist Joseph Shuster, and inspired a score of imitators. Superman was the first cartoon hero to make the reverse jump from comic books to newspaper syndication...
...year. He put some of that money into a new $2.2 million Chicago branch which he sold to Prudential Insurance Co. of America, and leased back. Another $800,000 was spent transforming Boston's historic old Natural History Museum into another Bonwit Teller branch. In Cleveland, he has leased a downtown building (Lindner Coy's) for a new store next year, bought a site in mushrooming Houston to build another $1.3 million store. In between times, he leased three small Manhattan stores and opened his new subsidiary: Anson-Jones Co. It sells only women's dresses...
What's wrong with the National Association of Manufacturers? Enough businessmen had posed the question to set young (34) Alfred S. Cleveland, University of California lecturer and a business consultant, poring over N.A.M.'s records for the last 52 years. In the current Harvard Business Review, he summed up what he thought was wrong...
President Conant, Joseph C. Grew '02, Cleveland Amory '39, and Otto E. Fuerbringer '32 will top the list of honored former staff members at the speakers' table when the CRIMSON holds its Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Dinner on June...