Word: departmenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, when correspondents gathered in the Propaganda Ministry for their regular morning conference, there was hell to pay. Blond, youthful Dr. Karl Bomer, head of the press department, grimly read passages from Newsman Conger's dispatch, exclaiming: "Lies! . . . Scoundrelly reporting! ... False to the last syllable!" Added another propaganda...
To replace Young, G.E. chose a handsome engineer-lawyer (B.S. in engineering from the University of Wisconsin, LL.B. from Fordham) named Philip D. Reed, who went to G.E. in 1926, worked mostly in the lamp department. Today Philip Reed is only 40.
Biggest thing on either man's public record is, by all odds, being chosen by Young and Swope. In 1937, when Wilson was vice president in charge of merchandise and appliances, and Reed general counsel to the lamp department, they were plucked and made respectively executive vice president and...
On Sept. 21, 1938, a tropical hurricane out of its orbit swarmed through New England like a banshee on a binge. From Long Island Sound to the tip of Maine it cut a swath 300 miles long, 100 miles wide. With its blast it felled 2,250,000,000 board...
Fred N. Dickerman of the same company was appointed earlier this year when the department was established.