Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats, his old friend and partner Chester Bowles had decided on Benton, an independent and member of no political party, to succeed Republican Raymond E. Baldwin, who leaves the U.S. Senate this month for a seat on the Connecticut supreme court. Unless the regulars could stop the appointment, the firm of Benton & Bowles would be back in business again...
Perhaps the most damaging repercussion of all will be the sheer volume of people antagonized by the Bingham statement. Harold Stassen and the University of Pennsylvania are answering the alledged slur on their athletic purity. The Yale A. A. released a calm but firm reply to the statement that the Big Three contests didn't mean much any more. No doubt, Princeton, as the holder of the last three titles, will also take umbrage at this charge from the Big Three's cellar-dweller. Perhaps the rest of the Ivy League is perturbed by the fact that Harvard has announced...
...Chicagoans are surrounded by lots of evidence of the work of Colonel Crown (World War II Army engineers). His Material Service Corp., biggest building-supply firm in the Midwest, did $33 million in sales last year and helped put up many a Chicago building. He also buys them ready-built and is one of the chief backers of Hotelman Conrad Hilton. Crown put up some of the money for Hilton to buy Chicago's Palmer House. When Connie Hilton bought Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria (TIME, Oct. 17), Crown chipped in $250,000. Today he owns...
...page story of how the management of a large firm worked harmoniously with its employees for 20 years was presented to the Business School library yesterday by Thompson Products...
...report, a day-to-day record of the recent experience of the firm, is a detailed history of its dealings with its employees throughout the years of the depression, the National Recovery Act, the rise of individual unions in the United States, and World...