Word: handiworks
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Although no one at Gimbels would credit the idea to any individual, all admen recognized the handiwork of Kenneth Collins, high-priced publicist who quit Macy's last November, was soon hired as assistant to President Bernard Gimbel...
...bill to compel "full publicity and information" on security issues was the handiwork of Democrat Huston Thompson, onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. It was largely patterned after Britain's Companies Act. Five years in jail and a $5,000 fine awaited the crooked U. S. stock promoter or corporation official who today must be caught by the roundabout charge of "using the mails to defraud." The proposed legislation did not make all stock issues foolproof but it did attempt to divide investment sheep from speculative goats. When House hearings started on the measure during the week, Representatives...
...councilmen's action was not prompted by civic piety or pride in their own handiwork. A woman had protested her sewer assessment because the ordinance authorizing it had been advertised, not in a daily newspaper as required by the city charter, but in the city's own weekly City Bulletin. Last week Ohio's Supreme Court upheld her. The ruling invalidated only the sewer ordinance, but Cincinnati's entire General Code had been enacted in 1928 and the City Solicitor foresaw other protests...
Useless to ask questions of the man who drew up the budget! He, debonair M. Francois Pietri. Minister of the Budget in the Laval Cabinet, not only forgot-believe it or not-his handiwork completely but rushed to Premier Herriot's aid in the Chamber debate fortnight ago, delivered an elegant harangue asking his fellow Deputies to "vote this payment for the honor of France...
...exact model of her own home, working either from photographs or plans. Prices, they promise, will not be exorbitant. Unemployed draughtsmen and department stores are not the only people to benefit. Frames for the doll houses are made at Greenwich House Workshops, a semi-charitable institution to teach handiwork to New York children. Each doll house bears a Delano & Aldrich label, is a fine advertisement for the firm...