Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Labor Board got off to a good start last week as a strike- settler in other troubled fields. Without waiting for New York's Senator Wagner, the regular chairman, to return from a European vacation, Dr. Leo Wolman of NRA's Labor Advisory Board took temporary command. Baltimore-born 43 years ago, this liberal economist has lately shot up to a position of major importance at NRA headquarters. He got his education at Johns Hopkins (A. B. 1911; Ph. D. 1914), taught at Hobart, Harvard and Michigan before settling down in his present professorial post at Columbia...
...Balbo's men, they will be held strictly incommunicado until time to take off. Air Minister Pierre Cot, who only lately learned to fly, will not try to imitate Air Minister Balbo by leading the squadrons himself. General Joseph Vuillemin, chief of the air force in Morocco, will command. Weatherbound at Shoal Harbor on Trinity Bay, N. F. General Balbo announced last week that instead of following the North Atlantic route home via Ireland, he would head for the Azores and Lisbon...
...shipyard got the biggest slice of all-a $38,450,000 order for two 10,000-ton cruisers and four destroyers (see p. 10). The youngish onetime automobile salesman was at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. when these things happened. In Manhattan, his hardworking, hard-bitten second-in-command, Lucius Bass ("Lou"') Manning, swore that it was no more than a happy coincidence. In his big suite in the Waldorf-Astoria, Lou Manning told newsmen that Mr. Cord & friends were interested in all forms of transportation- except those that run on rails. They began hunting for a shipyard...
...named a member of the advisory committee of nine chosen to aid Recovery Administrator Johnson. Last week Mr. Moffett was offered a place on the same committee. He wanted to take it. Mr. Teagle wanted him to refuse. Mr. Moffett's argument: the offered appointment was virtually a command from the President which it would be lese majeste to decline. Mr. Teagle's argument: two Standard Oil men on one committee would be too many. Meeting one morning in the Carlton Hotel in Washington Mr. Teagle put to Mr. Moffett an ultimatum: refuse the appointment or quit Standard...
...World's Fair, newsphotographers cornered General Italo Balbo and Mrs, Morton L, Schwartz, Manhattan socialite whose command of Italian gave her an advantage over other hostesses and enabled her to monopolize him both in Chicago and on Long Island. Cameramen barked: "Look this way, General. . . . Hold the lady by the arm, Mr. Balbo." General Balbo grinned, replied: "Nuts...