Word: collier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...levels. Michigan State University Professor Eugene E. Jennings, an expert on executive mobility, estimates that, apart from family-dominated companies, one-fifth of today's corporate presidents have been with their present firms for less than three years. Last year New England Mutual Life Insurance hired Abram T. Collier away from John Hancock as its new president. Gillette lost Stuart Hensley, now chairman of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical. Wayne Hoffman quit New York Central and stepped aboard as chairman of Flying Tiger Line. This week David C. Scott, formerly executive vice president of Colt Industries, takes over as president...
City police uncustomarily came on campus and arrested Keel. Several students attest that police manhandled them. Arnsel Collier, in a complaint filed with the FBI said a policeman, "grabbed me by my arms and started kicking me on my hips." Two days later, the other two students were arrested...
Died. John Collier, 84, anthropologist and writer, who as Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1933-45) fought to secure civil rights for the American Indian; in Taos, N. Mex. In 1934, Collier scored his greatest coup, the Indian Reorganization Act, a "constitution" that he helped push through Congress, gave the earliest Americans home rule and protection from unscrupulous white traders and land grabbers...
Also, Jane F. Collier, George A. Collier, Gary H. Gossen, Phyliss Kazen, and Francesco Pellizzi, all graduate students here...
...arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1950, scrawny, big-nosed, friendless cabbage green, and lugging three scrapbooks of poems with their rejection slips from The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. His four years in Cambridge were marked by a series of triumphs, marred only by his failure three times running to get accepted into Poet Archibald MacLeish's creative-writing seminar. He poured his energies into the Lampoon, the undergraduate humor magazine. At the end of his sophomore year, he met a fine-arts major at Radcliffe named Mary Pennington, two years his senior...