Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Lieut. General Otto von Lossow, 70, onetime Bavarian Reichswehr commander, who once called Hitler a "swashbuckling little ward politician" and suppressed the Munich Beer Hall putsch (1923); in Munich...
...Lieut.-General Sir Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard, British Governor of the buggy-and-bicycle vacationland of Bermuda, few months ago applied to the Assembly for an automobile. (There are only half-a-hundred motor-driven vehicles on the Islands, none for private use.) The application was received with "ribaldry." and the Governor retired to his tent with a severe case of the haughties. Last week when the Speaker informed the Assembly of the Governor's still purple condition, the ribald Assemblymen sent their soothing respects...
Everyone from the White House gardeners to the Secretary of War knew of the impending battle between the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants for the championship of the Eastern Division of the National (professional) Football League. In fact, Secretary of War Harry Woodring, Postmaster General Jim Farley and RFC Chairman Jesse Jones were among the red-feathered Washington in vaders...
...clerk and traveling auditor for the Southern Pacific Co., branched out nine years ago, became president of Pacific Greyhound Lines Inc. which he had merged from half-a-dozen motor transport companies. After nursing Pacific Greyhound through 1932 with a $412,960 profit, he was appointed Vice President and General Manager of the Alaska Steamship Co., boosted its business 50% between 1933 and 1937. Last week, to fill an old vacancy, he was elected board chairman of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., which has long wanted directors with broad transport experience. Quiet, energetic Thomas Wilson, 46, is already air-minded...
Next he turned up as chief owner of Phoenix Securities Corp., whose president, Philip De Ronde, became a crony. Half-a-dozen other investment trusts landed in his pocket, including General Investment Corp.; another crony, Ernest B. Warriner, became General's president. Truster Groves used his associates to put over his deals, used one trust to buy another. The involved nature of these deals inspired one of his directors to write this spicy note: "We may seem (to you) unduly sensitive to public, or rather informed financial opinion. The reason is that those who disregarded this opinion seem...