Word: eastwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hale & hearty but nearing 70, Robert Hervey Cabell retired last week as president of Armour & Co., announced he would go to war-jittery England in January, to adjust personal financial interests acquired there during his 20 years as Armour's London representative. His successor: Executive Vice-President George Eastwood...
Tacoma's new Police Commissioner Holmes Eastwood announced that publicity given the arrest of a Texas cop-killer had helped his pal escape, handed down an order forbidding any member of his force to talk about or show records on "serious" crimes to Tacoma's two newspapers (Times, News Tribune & Sunday Ledger) and one radio news service (KMO). Reporters who had lolled for years on desks in the detective bureau were chased out as "loiterers...
...Eastwood, a lean, soldierly Yorkshireman of 53, who was elected last March after experience as a Liverpool bobby, promised to hand out "legitimate" news at daily conferences. Only other officers authorized to deal with newspapermen were Chief James E. Dew, whose bright red handlebar mustache has been nationally publicized on a Vox Pop radio program, and acting Inspector Sherman Lyons...
Tacoma's newspapers immediately an nounced they would not recognize the "censorship," burgeoned with angry talk about "dictators" and "asinine orders." Citizens called up the papers to report petty accidents, robberies, the finding of an unidentified body. At the end of a quiet week Commissioner Eastwood was still holding firm, personally assured Tacomans no one had been murdered or kidnapped since his order took effect...
...Charles Hardy Eastwood, Newark water equipment manufacturer, declared that he sends employes into every flood-afflicted area, foots the bill himself, considers it good advertising. During the severe floods last spring, Eastwood had men with portable chlorinators in 14 States. Where they worked there were no cases of disease attributable to polluted water...