Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thompson's boss, Frederick C. (for Coolidge) Crawford, 62, onetime (1943) president of the N.A.M., is as full of zip and noise as a racing engine. In the head-cracking '30s, he defeated every attempt of the C.I.O. or A.F.L. to organize his plants, damned unions and the New Deal. His tart tongue often got him into other trouble; on a World War II visit to France he denounced resistance forces as Communist bandits...
...Crawford stirred up so many controversies that people often failed to notice an important fact: his company is not only well run but also among the fastest-growing in the U.S. By last week it had grown so big that President Crawford needed more help with day-to-day duties, more time for big decisions. He moved himself into the new job of chairman, moved his longtime right-hand man, John D. Wright, 47, into the presidency. Said Chairman Crawford, who is still top policy man: "In this business, you've got to live in the future...
Frozen Mercury. Fred Crawford, civil engineer (Harvard, '14), joined Thompson as a millwright's helper in 1916. Under one of its founders, an ex-welder named Charles E. Thompson, the 15-year old company had already built a tidy business making auto valves. In World War I, its business almost doubled, and Thompson branched into aircraft, making valves for France's Spad fighters. By 1929, when the Thompson Trophy was created for Cleveland's National Air Races, Crawford had moved up to vice president and general manager. At Thompson's death* in 1933, Crawford took...
...actresses (including Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer and Paulette Goddard) in The Women, Rosalind Russell is the one usually best remembered by the millions who saw the picture. She became firmly established as the idol of a generation of less-than-beautiful movie-going girls who had to use smart clothes and bright chatter to lure men away from more luscious-looking females...
...Radcliffe meeting, called by Margaret B. Brown '54 and Cynthia Crawford '55, ended with the resolution that the "passing of the petition now in circulation by the CUSC is well considered and timely." The Harvard Student Council, in its Monday meeting, came out against the group's plans...