Word: g
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...G. W. ANDERSON General Secretary and Treasurer Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Lakewood, Ohio
...plan because he is close to RCA's front door: its President David Sarnoff is his good friend. Keeping it under their hats, such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the New Friends of Music Orchestra recorded such works as the Beethoven Fifth Symphony, the Mozart G-Minor Symphony. Post readers could get each album (three or more disks) by presenting 24 vouchers clipped from the paper, plus $1.93 in cash. From the first week-during which Jacob Omansky died -the venture was a success. Up to last week, when the eighth of the album series was released...
...Daddy N. G. Richman always turns up at factory dances and celebrations, has the walls of his office lined with autographed bridal photos of Richman "fellow workers," has a huge album with autographed pictures of every man and woman who ever worked for Richman Bros. But "Daddy" Richman's friends never mention "paternalism" to him more than once. Says he: "That stuff's all right, but it's the pay envelope that counts...
...suits and overcoats in trade for pig iron and salt. After his three sons got into the company it really grew. Son Charles Lehman (who died in 1936), "the merry one," became president. Son Henry Centennial (who died in 1934), "the quiet one," became secretary-treasurer. "Mr. N. G."-"the grave one"-became chairman of the board. "Mr. N. G." in 1903 hit on the profitable idea of selling Richman Bros. $22.50 suits direct to wearer. Today the company operates 62 stores in 57 cities, keeps a mailing list of 1,000,000 purchasers of Richman suits...
Auto Sales: Only 30% ahead of 1938's subnormal level, auto sales clearly justified no production revival to the not so high 1939 peak. General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr., long bullish, complained last week that the spring recovery had fizzled: G. M.'s May sales fell 3,559 from April, the industry sold about 10,000 units more than in April, but not so many as in March...