Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hartford, Conn. MARIE CATUOGNO
...ripe old age of 184, the Hartford Courant is still hale, hearty (circ. 61,000) and articulate. Its readers speak up, too. In a single letters-to-the-editor column last week they hurled such epithets at the editorials across the page as "boorish," "intolerant," "jaundiced," "smug," "partisan propaganda," and "poorly written." The editors hardly winced; as long as they were getting back talk, they knew that their stuff was being read...
Nomenclature. In Hot Springs, Va., the city prepared to welcome convention delegates of the Heat Exchange Institute. In Hartford, Conn., William Sober was fined for drunkenness. In Oakdale, Calif., zoning officials ordered Cleveland Cackler to get rid of his chicken coop...
...close-to-the-vest fight for control of New England's biggest railroad, Boston's shrewd, old (82) Frederic C. Dumaine held an impressive hand. Dumaine interests had claimed that they had picked up enough New York, New Haven & Hartford stock to elect eleven of the 16 directors (TIME, May 17). Last week, with a stockholders' showdown meeting still a month off, the opposition folded up. Howard S. Palmer, who, Boston charged, was too close to New York interests, resigned after 14 years as New Haven's president. To make New England's victory over...
...original Fuller Brush man is kindly, dignified Arthur C. Fuller, 62, who parlayed a basement shop in Somerville, Mass. into a national institution. Fuller made his brushes by night, sold them by day. In 1906 he moved to Hartford, got a helper. When retail stores refused to handle his brushes, he got his first salesmen. He has taken a paternal interest in them ever since; all his district managers are former salesmen. When son Howard left college (Harvard and Duke), he peddled brushes for a year to learn the business...