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Married. Sarah Branch Jackson Coonley Morgan, daughter of Robert Jackson, onetime secretary of the Democratic National Committee, ex-wife of John Clark Coonley, Boston chain-store magnate, and widow of William Forbes Morgan, onetime Democratic National Treasurer; and Milton Dorland Doyle, Manhattan broker, vice president of the Washington Redskins; in Ellicott City...
...partisan Council for Democracy. In stage-Lincoln voice, Actor Raymond Massey read a unity plea by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet. Unity speeches were made by Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Selective Service Director Clarence A. Dykstra, Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Labor Leader George M. Harrison, Industrialist Howard Coonley, Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing, Citizen Alfred Mossman Landon...
...angel of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania; long-nosed Lammot du Pont, beardless patriarch of the U. S.'s most famed family industry; Du Pont-in-law Donaldson Brown, vice chairman, financial and labor policy man of General Motors; the retiring president of N. A. M., courtly Howard Coonley of Walworth Co., whose valve business has not been doing so well in spite of recovery; barrel-chested Utilitarian Wendell Lewis Willkie, foe of TVA; President Clarence Francis, able little-publicized business pundit, and Chairman Colby Mitchell Chester, of General Foods; heavy-jowled Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of Reynolds Tobacco...
...raises costs, prices begin to pyramid, and panicked customers overbuy. The result is often an inventory depression. Example: 1937. For this among other reasons many a businessman last week had his fingers crossed about a war boom. One of U. S. industry's most influential spokesmen, President Howard Coonley of National Association of Manufacturers (also Chairman of the Advisory Committee of American Standards Association, which is trying to eliminate bottlenecks by promoting standardization) took time out to broadcast : ". . . We have no illusions. . . . Economic chaos and years of crushing depression are [war's] inevitable aftermath. . . . ultimately...
...unemployment from America . . . put men and women back to work. This is their challenge and their opportunity. . . ." The one sign vouchsafed up to last week's end indicated that Business will do very little until Congress has done much more. Said National Association of Manufacturers' President Howard Coonley: "Considerable overemphasis is placed on the claim that Congress 'has accepted industry's challenge' and that responsibility for complete recovery has now been shifted to Business. . . . Substantial and sound recovery depends on further positive action by Congress." . . . But he did add: "I know it is not necessary...