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...Helpful Harmful Don't Know Henry Ford 73.6% 12.3% 14.1% Senator Wagner 51.8 5.6 42.6 William Green 49.7 18.2 32.1 Secretary of Labor Perkins 43.4 19.4 37.2 Alfred P. Sloan Jr. 25.5 7.7 66.8 John L. Lewis 32.6 44.6 22.8 Norman Thomas 14.1 20.5 65.4 Tom Girdler 4.4 9.7 85.9 Earl Browder...
Heckled at the annual meeting about Republic Steel's labor policies, Chairman Tom Mercer Girdler retorted to a young woman stockholder: "Some of my best friends are in organized labor...
...passport violator. He was excluded from a Harvard assembly in his second capacity only. If Mr. Greene was sincere--and the burden of proof rests upon those who say he was not--then no one has denied the right of a Communist to speak at Harvard. If Tom Girdler had been indicted for income tax evasion pending a lecture engagement here, he too would have been denied the right to speak...
Goodyear reported first half sales up 23%, profits up 116% to $3,610,595 from the year before. Boss of Goodyear is opinionated, poker-playing Paul W. Litchfield, who has tough Steelmaster Tom Girdler on his board. Litchfield is a great dirigible booster, a chum of Germany's Zeppeliner Dr. Hugo Eckener. In 1936 he wanted to nominate Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh for Vice President on the Republican ticket. Last spring he urged the U. S. to barter (as it soon did) surplus cotton for a stockpile of rubber which a war would shut...
...best seller, circled the globe in 80 days. This fictive feat remained a record until 1889, when the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, casting about for a circulation-getter, ordered 22-year-old Nellie Ely to "knock about five days off this fellow Phileas Fogg's record." Globe-girdler Bly, bloomered and veiled, sailed from Hoboken, N. J. on a bow-spritted ocean greyhound, completed her stint in 72¼ days...