Word: forbeses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Tom. Dewey had long held his fire, ignoring his critics, who cried that he was evading major issues. Last week he finally spoke out. Slipping into white tie & tails for the 30th anniversary dinner of Forbes magazine (see BUSINESS), he spoke plainly and forcefully on U.S. foreign policy.
In 1906, a young Scotsman who was earning $25 a week as a financial reporter made an unusual investment. From his savings, he spent $10 a day to live at Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. There he could rub elbows with the rich who gathered nightly in "Peacock...
But never had B.C. rubbed elbows with so many tycoons at one time as he did last week at the Waldorf-Astoria. The bosses of Du Pont, General Motors Corp., General Electric Co., U.S. and Bethlehem Steel, Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Corp., the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and many another great...
In all baseball history only four men-Babe Ruth, Jimmy Foxx, Hack Wilson and Hank Greenberg-had hit 50 home runs in one season. Last week, with eight games of the season still left, a tall young ex-Navy pilot named Ralph Kiner became the fifth. He banged No. 50...
Competing with the aircraft motors, on the guest speakers' platform, beginning at 8:15 o'clock, will be Lieutenant-Governor Arthur W. Coolidge; Linus Towers, executive vice president of the Yankee Network; Rear-Admiral Morton Dayo; Major General Horace McBridge; S. Murray Forbes, Wellesley trustoo; and star Jane Cowl.