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...Rustless Iron & Steel Co., followed by a year of semi-retired dabbling in various ventures, Symington was looking around restlessly for something to do. At the urging of Wall Street Investment Banker David Van Alstyne Jr., he agreed to go to the rescue of St. Louis' ailing Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. (fans, small motors) in return for $24,000 a year, plus a stock-option deal. Emerson was deep in the red and battered by labor troubles, had barely managed to survive a bitter, 53-day sitdown strike in 1937. Taking over as president in unpromising 1938, Symington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Everybody's No. 2 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...George A. Buttrick will retire in June as Preacher to the University and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. He will devote his time to freelance preaching and writing, and has also been designated as the first American to serve as Harry Emerson Fosdick Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Buttrick Will Retire As University Preacher | 11/3/1959 | See Source »

...move to Sanders resulted from overcrowding in Emerson D last week. Originally scheduled in the Lamont Forum Room, the lecture was moved to Emerson to accomodate a capacity turn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacLeish Lectures | 10/27/1959 | See Source »

...crowd formed in Lamont Library's Forum Room, where the speech was originally scheduled to be held, then rushed to Emerson D, where the young and nimble finaly heard MacLeish's address...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacLeish's Lecture Attracts 800 As Poet Opens Series of Talks | 10/22/1959 | See Source »

...your books you emphasize action. Don't you think that mysticism is sometimes very important? Has not some of the best good been given to the world by some mystics like Christ, Plato, Emerson, and certain oriental philosophers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dialogue With John Dewey | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

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