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Word: craning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spring term, C. Crane Brinton, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, will offer another television course, "A Study of Revolutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Course Credit Offered on TV | 10/6/1959 | See Source »

Notably absent from the CCA list are Mayor Thomas McNamara, elected last January with some CCA support, and Councillor Al Vellucci. Crane, DeGuglielmo, Mrs. Wheeler and Mrs. Wise are currently members of the Council, while Edward Sullivan is a School Committeeman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CCA Endorses Fifteen Candidates For Council, School Committee | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...endorsed candidates for City Council include Edward A. Crane '35, Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, Bernard Goldberg, Richard E. McLaughlin, Manuel Rogers, Edward T. Sullivan, Ralph W. Ward, Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler and Mrs. Pearl K. Wise. The candidates for School Committee are William S. Barnes, Assistant Dean of the Law School, Hester E. Byrnes, Joseph G. Dever, Mrs. Catherine T. Ogden, Gustave M. Solomons and Charles M. Sullivan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CCA Endorses Fifteen Candidates For Council, School Committee | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Even wily Proxy Fighter Alfons Landa, executive committee chairman of Fairbanks Whitney Corp., who helped Evans gain his place on the Crane board, was taken aback by Evans' maneuvers, questioned whether he was housecleaning too fast and hard. But Evans, who built Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co. from a money-losing locomotive manufacturer to a twelve-division, $137 million industrial combine, would hear none of it. Shuffling between his Greenwich, Conn, home and several cities, he worked harder and more ruthlessly to increase profits for Crane and solidify his power. Evans shifted about Crane's operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Tough Boss | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...Evans' aggressiveness has paid off. Crane's net income in the first half rose more than 60%, to $2,333,000. Just how much farther Evans will go toward reducing the size of Crane is a matter of wide speculation. His rift with Landa over how to run the company appears healed. If he can overcome the ill will he has generated through the drastic changes in Crane's organization, roughriding Tom Evans may well add Crane to the list of his successes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Tough Boss | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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