Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tennessee plantation 50 years ago, educated at Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, son of a longtime (1904-20) Tennessee Congressman, he got his business start as secretary to the Tennessee Bankers Association. Later when he was with First National Bank of St. Louis, he struck up a friendship with Percy Johnston, who was then a Kentucky bank examiner. And after Mr. Johnston was astride "Old Bullion," he persuaded the St. Louis banker to move to Manhattan. There in 15 years the potent Southern team of Johnston & Houston lifted Chemical from 136th to 14th place in the roster...
...hour nap after 5 p. m. tunes him up for his evening rounds. He delights in confounding dowagers. He astounded a dinner party one night by shrilling: "Congratulate me, folks! I've finally arrived socially. Today I got the sheets of Mrs. 'Bordy* Harriman." His friendship with the elder Hearst sons, notably John Randolph, prompted the traditional summons to the Hearst castle at San Simeon, Calif., the offer...
...Sciences give to cinema professionals. To R. B. Clardy, a Los Angeles commercial artist, went $250 for his 200-ft. film, New Horizon. A 20-year-old Japanese, Tatuschi Okamoto, who won the photography award two years ago, last week took $100 second prize with a picture called Tender Friendship...
...cannot help differing from that of another. Even if students were grouped so that the two intended to work together did so congenially and at approximately the same speed, and with generally similar thoroughness, they will have lost the benefits of intimacy with the instructor. In the personal friendship which frequently arises between tutor and tutee is something so valuable, be it ever so intangible, that to sacrifice it without first considering all alternatives would amount to injustice to the System itself...
...Manufacturers Association), Lewis H. Brown (Johns-Manville), Paul W. Litchfield (Goodyear Tires), Charles Bismark Ames (Texas Corp.), Ernest T. Weir (National Steel), Walter Jodok Kohler (of Kohler), George Harrison Houston (Baldwin Locomotives), Andrew Wells Robertson (Westinghouse) and 79 others. They were all rehearsing to extend the glad hand of friendship to the New Deal...