Word: colliere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the Democrats gained control of the House, Garner was promoted to the Speakership. Mississippi was redistricted and Collier lost a seat. Crisp dreamed of becoming a Senator and was beaten. Only Rainey remained. Last spring when the House was choosing a Speaker, John McDuffie of Alabama was a leading candidate until Doughton got busy...
...William Rhinelander Stewart, Mr. Astor's best friend; Lyle Hull who last spring was Mr. Stewart's bicycling companion in Bermuda; George St. George, young, round-faced, rosy-cheeked, English-bred member of Tuxedo's horsy set. Mrs. George St. George was the onetime Katharine Price Collier, stepsister of the President's cousin Warren Delano Robbins, U. S. Minister to Canada. The two exceptions to the socialite group were Dr. Leslie W. Heiter of Mobile, Ala., friend...
...pocket to develop it. At a rough & tumble hearing in Washington last autumn "Ding's" tongue, agile and stinging as his pen, nearly carried the day for duck protectionists against an overwhelming number of non-protectionists led by hard-driving President Thomas Hambly Beck of P. F. Collier & Son Co. Few months later "Ding," no grudge-bearer, joined Publisher Beck and Professor Aldo Leopold of University of Wisconsin on President Roosevelt's Committee on Wild-Life Restoration. The Committee's program, last week awaiting President Roosevelt's approval, has for its major plank the conversion...
...weeks 63,000 passenger automobiles from other states poured into Miami. One day last week while blizzards were freezing the North 75,000 people baked on Miami Beach, three times the peak number reported in 1926. There, too, 45,000 visitors filled all available accommodations. In Tampa Barren Collier's hotels, Floridan and Tampa Terrace, were 85% full, reopened their main dining rooms closed all last year. Visitors were warned not to go to Palm Beach and Miami unless they had reservations. The best hotels, all full, were charging...
Twenty years ago "Buck" Buckley was a University of Chicago footballer. Seventeen years ago he was president of Crowell Publishing Co. (Collier's, American, Woman's Home Companion, Farm & Fireside). Ten years ago he was president and publisher of Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner. Since 1926 he has been a vice president of National City Bank in Manhattan. Chicago newsmen remember "Buck" Buckley as a loud-cursing tough-acting man who really is mild and human. He now lives on Manhattan's upper East Side in a brownstone house with a front door painted an Irish...