Word: dann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mainly responsible for this unique corporation is Pilgrim's 65-year-old President James Edwin Dann. In the 1890s, when he was a young laundry foreman, James Dann had an idea that decent labor standards would promote efficiency, even in the laundry business. When he met Edward Huff Bancker, an idealistic college graduate with some money, his idea became the Pilgrim Laundry, opened...
Specializing in quality work, Pilgrim prospered. By 1913 Partners Dann and Bancker could afford a new $1,000,000 plant, as light and airy as any in the country. They set up recreation facilities, a vacation clubhouse, took to calling employes Pilgrims, put a name plate at every worker's post. In 1921 they began letting all employes buy stock. By 1937 employes owned over 50%. Mr. Bancker having died the year before, they were also offered his 25%, leaving Mr. Dann only 25%. The price of the company's shares once...
...writer, Herr Doktor Paul Danzer, summed up: "Marriage bureaus have a disagreeable taste for the more sensitive young people. . . . There should be no special measures necessary to enable a decent young man to accost a girl-provided the girl makes no resistance. [Ohne besondere Massnahmen käme es dann dazu, dass der anständige junge Mann ohne Widerstand auch ein fremdes Mädchen ansprechen könnte...
...Napoleon Greift Ein," or as the English has it "Napoleon Intrudes," deals with a wax figure of Napoleon which comes to life and trys to intervene in the modern world. He boasts that he alone can save Europe from becoming slaven of America. "Dann greift or ein," first in a diplomatic conference, then a boudoir, a motor picture studio, a madhouse, and ultimately the museum again...
March 28?Concert by National High School Chorus; in Chicago. Members: 400 representative U. S. high school children. Conductor: Dr. Hollis Dann of New York University...