Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lady. Technically Lord Catto heads a private bank. Actually, few institutions have cast a more pervasive influence on history than the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, which rises like a fortress from the center of the City-London's bomb-scarred financial district...
...from Massachusetts Tech (Bachelor of Science) and Harvard (Master of Business Administration). Temple University contributed an honorary science degree. In the '30s he blueprinted much of the Army's present program as chief of the planning division for army ordnance. Later, as boss of the Philadelphia Ordnance District, he boosted production of ordnance...
When Britain's war with Napoleon was brewing in 1803, the martial spirit swept the lyrical circles of Britain's Lake District. Poet William Wordsworth bought himself a red coat, drilled with the Ambleside Volunteers. Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote patriotic sonnets and coined a deathless phrase: "The Corsican upstart...
...Essayist William Hazlitt was in despair. He claimed that his friends were betraying their revolutionary principles, that Napoleon was "the best hope of the Cause of the Peoples of the earth." When he mixed Napoleonic politics with a tumultuous passion for a local lass, the Lake District peasantry beat Hazlitt up. The advocate of revolution fled to Coleridge's house for fresh shoes. Then he stumbled on to Wordsworth's house, where he shook off his pursuers, borrowed enough money to take him home to London, where direct action was a merely literary theory...
...time Chuck was 24, he was Colgate district manager in Milwaukee, where he turned $80,000 worth of red ink into a profit in one year. Two years later, when he was a divisional manager in Cincinnati, Pepsodent snapped him up as sales-promotion manager ("didn't know about my age; I lied"). For four years he was promoted every year - except in 1939, when he became vice president and general manager. He stayed in that job for two years. Then he became executive vice president and, last June, president of Pepsodent. At that time, he got a good...