Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Macia. For years he has striven to foment a revolution which should set his native Cataloniaf free from the dominance of Madrid. Last week he rode at midnight toward the Spanish frontier with a glad heart. Were not the invading 400 patriots equipped with rifles, machine guns, a medical corp, and even a strong box heavy with newly designed and minted Catalan money? All was prepared...
...will pass over the Civil War, though I ought to explain what a big help my grandfather, Corp. Ephraim Forecast, was to General Grant. After the war, Ephraim, always quick to see an industrial opportunity, realized there was a fine opening for a man who could sign checks in a bold, clear hand. He learned to sign a great many different names--the Forecasts have always been of money at it. He alternated this work with several ventures in the stone-breaking business, in which he handled some big government contracts. He died in Ossining...
...President Coolidge held a long conference with Charles M. Schwab, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bethlehem Steel Corp., which is complaining of the invasion by German steel of U. S. markets. Mr. Schwab said that the mills are running at more than 80% capacity, that the national steel production this year would go beyond 50,000,000 tons; but he declined to reveal any conversation on the subject of German steel. Next day, the Official Spokesman informed the press that the career of Mr. Schwab epitomized the opportunities of this Republic...
George F. Johnson, president, Endicott-Johnson Corp., reputedly the largest shoemakers in the world: "My company employs 17,000 men, many of whom buy goods on the installment plan. I disapprove of this practice, for, as I said last week, 'The only profit out of installment buying goes to the men who make the sales, and sometimes to the banks who handle the papers, but never to the poor devil who owes and must...
Died. Harry H. Bassett, 51, president of the Buick Motor Co., vice president and director of General Motors Corp.; at the American Hospital in Neuilly, France, of double bronchial pneumonia. He had gone to Paris for the International Automobile Salon...