Word: heber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Years Ahead. P-B's success is tied to one man. President Walter Heber Wheeler. 61. Towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Walter Wheeler was an All-Eastern football tackle at Harvard in 1916, a subchaser skipper and Navy Cross winner in World War I, and a champion sailor. He joined the company in 1919, when it was a struggling small business directed by his stepfather, the late Walter H. Bowes. Bowes teamed with Inventor Arthur H. Pitney to develop the first crude postage meter. Wheeler went to Washington in 1920, presided over the demonstration of the machine that...
Near Miss. In Natchez, Miss., Secretary of State Heber Ladner, addressing the League of Women Voters, solemnly began: "It thrills my soul whenever I come to the historic city of Vicksburg," discovered that he had begun reading the wrong speech...
...Reginald Heber Smith '10 stated yesterday in a speech to the Harvard Students Bar Association that "the minister has only his obligation to God, the doctor has only his obligation to his patient, but the lawyer has obligations to his client, the courts, and the public...