Word: colliers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Los Angeles Advertising Club, Speaker Thomas Hambly Beck, president of Crowell Publishing Co. (Collier's, Woman's Home Companion, American Magazine) dramatically gave up the British ghost: "The bombing that is going on is so terrific that no people can withstand it. In my opinion, the British Empire will be finished by the end of this month...
...Indian Commissioner John Collier testified before a Senate Committee that fifth columnists had made no headway among his Indians, but that he could not say the same for the Senate Indian Affairs Committee which had approved a bill proposed and backed, said he, by "subversive" groups...
...there should be someone younger, quicker and better equipped to meet the urgencies of possible warfare without delay in the White House. But he spoke of that rather as his own personal problem than America's."-(H. G. Wells-after lunching with President Roosevelt two years ago-in Collier...
...James R. Balsley Jr., of Stamford, Conn.; Edward L. Barnes '38, of Chicago, III.; Howard F. Bennett A.M. '39, Assistant in History; Gustav Bergson A.M. '36, Instructor in Physics and Communication Engineering; Carl L. Billman '35, Assistant in History; Arthur R. Borden Jr. '39, of Roslindale, Francis G. Collier A.M. '33, of West Somerville.; John L. Dampeer '38, of Cleveland, O.; Walter H. Ellis Jr. of Buffalo, N. Y.; Felowes D. Gardner '38, of Ardsley-on-Hudson, N. Y.; Floyd K. Haskell '37, of Morristown, N. J.; Frank W. Hatfield '38, of Ashland, Pa.; Christopher Huntington '32, Assistant in German...
Only white man in the company of 76 is the press agent. Softspoken, sharp-eyed Negro Owner Charles Collier has bossed the show for 18 years, recently refused to sell it for $20,000. Collier moves his troupers from town to town in a private car named after his mother, feeds their bellies, watches their morals...