Word: donnelley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most newsworthy Wood item at the Manhattan show was a pencil drawing on brown wrapping paper called Adolescence lent by Clarence Guy Littell, president of Chicago's R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press). It showed a gaunt, pinfeathered Plymouth Rock cockerel rising in the faint light of early dawn between his plump parents for his first lusty crow (see cut). The drawing was made in 1933. Recently Artist Wood's good friend and competitor, Thomas Benton, saw it, grew hugely excited, wrote Grant Wood that if he did not make a painting of it at once...
Engaged, Gaylord Donnelley, 24, son of Chairman Thomas Elliott Donnelley of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (Chicago printers) ; and Dorothy Ranney, 25, daughter of George Alfred Ranney, Chicago utilities man, finance committee member and one-time vice president of International Harvester Co.; in Chicago...
...home run brought a 4-0 victory for the Gold Coaster. The summary: Score--Kirkland 6, Winthrop 5. KIRKLAND WINTHROP Sieman, 2b. ss., Crampton Peter, cf. 3b., Letarie Parker, 1f. 2b., Randall Caley, rf. 1b., Bittenbender Christophe, 3b lf., Emery Powell, 1b. ef., Leon Moweley, ss. p., Baker Donnelley, Robinson, c. c. Egan Wells, p. rf., McDonald
...Chicago 26 business bigwigs including such men as Sewell Avery, John V. Farwell, Albert D. Lasker, Alexander Legge, Col. A. A. Sprague, E. L. Ryerson Jr., Thomas E. Donnelley, were issuing a manifesto against Inflation. The Crusaders, who have found their Holy Grail. Repeal, announced a new crusade: against Inflation. Even inflationists began to trim their sails when they saw the Government's credit threatened. Senator Elmer Thomas was declaring: "There need be no fear of printing press inflation. . . . With gold adequately repriced the problem of future stabilization is simplified. . . . Our currency system must support business on a scale...
...Starting with the issue of Sept. 12. TIME will be delivered to Subscriber Robey and all Pacific Coast subscribers by Saturday. Subscribers will appreciate that getting copies to individual mail addresses takes more time than delivering bundles of magazines direct to newsstands. New printing speed developed by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., TIME's printers, and the split-second co-operation of seven potent railroad systems and the U. S. Post Office, will now combine to make weekend reading of TIME possible for subscribers from coast to coast.-ED. Rabbit & Lion...