Word: eatonton
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Henry Woodfin Grady, eloquent editor of the Atlanta Constitution in the 1880s, was the first great promoter of an "industrial South." Day after death cut short his campaign at 39-December 23, 1889-a boy was born to the poor but genteel Weaver family in Eatonton, Ga. Like many another Southern family, they named their child Henry Grady. Today Promoter Henry Woodfin Grady's vision of an industrial South is finally approaching reality and Henry Grady Weaver is chief promoter of a new industrial concept. He is head of the Customer Research Staff of General Motors Corp...
Idea Man. Henry Weaver at 48 has been in the automobile business ever since he got out of Georgia Tech in 1911, returned to Eatonton to run a garage. Presently he became a mechanic in Detroit's early motor companies, got fired with monotonous regularity until he branched into sales. He did a turn as draftsman with Haynes Automobile Co., lost some money but learned how to be an executive in the short-lived Sun Motor Car Co., finally hitched his trailer to a star in 1918 by joining Hyatt Roller Bearing Co. then headed by Alfred P. Sloan...