Word: corde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contracts, only one would, without firing its best men and reorganizing, be clearly eligible for new contracts,* and that one line was the line that had had the always unprofitable southern transcontinental route. That line was American Airways, controlled by that ambitious, trouble-brewing newcomer to aviation, Errett Lobban Cord. "General" Farley reconsidered and opened not only the southern route but a new northern transcontinental route to the bidding. But these bids were to be opened one week later than the rest, offering possible consolation prizes to any bidder unsuccessful in the first auction. Again the old-line companies thought...
This left but one major operator who has never protested-American Airways' inscrutable Errett Lobban Cord...
...Joseph ("Gene") Tunney was a shipping clerk and went to War with the Marines while Jack Dempsey was posing as a riveter. Five years ago Tunney married Polly Lauder, Carnegie Steel heiress. Last week he was elected a director of New York Shipbuilding Corp., controlled by Motorman Errett Lobban Cord. Presumably he will represent the Lauder interests...
...discussion of U. S. playwrighting begins with Eugene O'Neill. Bunched close together below him are Philip Barry, Maxwell Anderson and Sidney Howard. Like them, Howard does not write a hit at every sitting. Since They Knew What They Wanted, only three (Alien Corn, The Silver Cord, The Late Christopher Bean} of his ten plays have been financially successful. Unlike O'Neill, Anderson or Barry, Playwright Howard is not above working in Hollywood, where he has never written a failure. His adaptation of Bulldog Drummond for Producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1929 made Ronald Colman an important star...
...Cord (Auburn...