Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Frederick Samuel Fish, 84, one-time president (1911-15) and chairman (1915-35 ) of Studebaker Corp., son-in-law of Co-Founder John Mohler Studebaker; in South Bend...
...Died. Frederick George ("Peckham") Banbury, First Baron Banbury of Southam, 85, famed old parliamentary curmudgeon; at Highworth, Wiltshire, England. A Tory diehard, who boasted that his home was illuminated only by candles, he blocked admittance of peeresses to the House of Lords lest the body "lose dignity to secure efficiency...
...while others attend El Retiro, San Inigo, a retreat conducted by Jesuits near San Francisco. A place favored by Manhattan businessmen and politicians is Mount Manresa on Staten Island. In Chicago such good Catholics as Judge John Patrick McGoorty, President Dennis Francis Kelly of The Fair (department store), President Frederick H. Massman of National Tea Company and Mayor James Joseph Kelly's brother Stephen spend "Sixty Golden Hours" in the Franciscan retreat nearby at Mayslake. Last week Catholics flocked to the nation's two most famed retreats, at South Bend, Ind. and Malvern...
...many a high-school boy and girl. Gibson reports that guitars now account for 95% of its sales, compared to 5% before Depression. Another leading stringed instrument maker is C. F. Martin & Co., which is not to be confused with the Elkhart band instrument company. President is C. Frederick Martin IV, a suave, blond young man who is also president of National Association of Musical Merchandise Manufacturers. Says he: "My family has been in the business 90 years. . . . Americans as a class are attaining real musical appreciation for the first time...
...mechanic for a time, gets along well with plain men when he sees them as individuals. But pursuit of the Big Money corrupts his native talents as well as his good nature, eventually kills him. Dos Passos frames the story of Anderson with thumbnail sketches of Henry Ford, Frederick Winslow Taylor, inventor of scientific management; and Thorstein Veblen. Like Ford, Charley Anderson had native mechanical skill, loved to tinker with machines. Like Taylor, he suffered because he tried to speed up production, to make manufacture efficient, and shrank from the resulting hostility of workmen. Veblen, a lifelong student...