Word: courtney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mills Jr. and Assistant Commerce Secretary Lothair Teetor both saw increasing signs of an early business upturn. "The gloomy ones may well be caught out in the sunshine with their umbrellas and overshoes on," said Teetor. Though two private economists, Walter E. Hoadley of Armstrong Cork Co. and Dr. Courtney Brown of Columbia University, saw no such sign of a swift upturn, neither could they see any signs of an oncoming bust. The gentle slide, they thought, had just about hit bottom...
...COURTNEY B. LAWSON...
JOSEPH H. COURTNEY Morgantown...
...prepared a 289-page report of their findings. The society, he carefully pointed out, was in "sound financial condition," but the report accused Parkinson of "nepotism" in giving $950,921 of the society's advertising business to a newly formed agency controlled by his young son, Courtney V. Parkinson, who had no experience handling such large accounts. It also charged that "favoritism" had been shown in handing out the company's legal work and in placing construction contracts. Among the findings: ¶ Equitable had paid a $60,000 legal fee to one of its directors...
...Courtney Craig Smith '38 was installed Saturday as the ninth president of Swarthmore College. In his inaugural address, Smith said that the public must be taught that colleges are more than "the haven of half-backs, cheer leaders, junior proms, and absent-minded but wonderfully conspiratorial professors...