Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time for anything but business. Newspaper men who interviewed him in the midst of his historic duel with the Morgan interests over Dodge Bros, were astonished to find him utterly cool and relaxed, willing to talk (a clinging drawl) for five minutes about the very simple facts of the deal and for 55 minutes about himself, his many friends, his children (Clarence Douglass, aged 15, with whom he hunts and fishes; Dorothy Anne, aged 12, whom he supplies with dogs, ponies, stories and a paternal playmate), his herd of Guernseys, his frequent trips abroad...
After the National Cash Register deal, newspaper men found him puffing an old black pipe and talking about "team work." "All of us are cogs in a great machine. . . . There can be no leadership in modern enterprises-they are too big. In board meeting I don't sit at the head of the table. I sit anywhere. . . . Money? What is there to it? ... After man's material wants are satisfied all that remains to the making of money is the power to accomplish something for the common good...
...Floater of Polish, Brazilian and Dutch loans; builder of Youngstown Sheet & Tube: successful competitor of J. P. Morgan & Co. for the huge (146-million) Dodge Bros, deal (TIME, April...
...books that are read? There must be a deal of truth in tales of the ocean's monotony, for one "wiper's" list ran thus: Froude, "Life and Letters of Erasmus". Kipling's "Captains Courageous", Russell, "Select Essays", Hazlitt's "Table Talk", Shakespeare's Histories, with excerpts also from Tennyson and Coleridge...
BREAD & CIRCUSES?W. E. Woodward?Harper ($2). To the Angel of Death an old man complained: "I have not lived. . . . I've worked . . . talked a lot . . . loved . . . hated . . . laughed a good deal . . . built some houses . . . brought up my children . . . thought a little . . . and?" The Angel of Death interrupted, "That was Life." Thus Mr. Woodward prepared for his story: After a successful career as a vender of thinking?wholesale and retail?Michael Webb (friend of readers of Bunk) establishes himself at Echo Hill Inn in Connecticut. In this labyrinthine tavern with steps up, steps down from room to room, with...