Word: helm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Production Policy. From the day old Heinrich set his sons to work, a Steinway has always stood at-the company's helm, with one or more others ready to replace him: all the men of the family are raised to the business, beginning with the requirement that every Steinway boy must take piano lessons. Steinway presidents do not retire. Four of the five top executives since 1853 have died in the job, and their successors were quietly chosen at family councils. Today there are seven Steinways of the third, fourth and fifth generations in various departments, led by Theodore...
Dedicated Endeavor. Few men symbolize the system as well as Superintendent Bill Jansen, who has stood steadily, even stolidly at its helm since 1947. Like many of his students and many of his teachers, he is the son of an immigrant himself. His father, a Danish cabinetmaker from Kiel, settled in The Bronx, toiled diligently at his exacting trade (Jansen's Park Avenue apartment boasts a collection of intricately inlaid tables fitted by his father's hands), endured hard times and planned better lives for his children. Jansen, a big, strong boy. knew what he wanted...
...last week Gene, now a senior at New Orleans' Jesuit High School, was still at the helm and his father, now an experienced old salt, shared the honor of racing in the finals of the North American Sailing championship...
...Helm. No Yachting staffer is happier with a deck underfoot than the magazine's 81-year-old Publisher, Herbert L. Stone, a small (5 ft. 6 in.), ruddy-faced, crinkle-eyed sailor who has been going down to the sea in yachts ever since he was a boy in Charleston, S.C. In 1908, after working up to be assistant paymaster on the New York Central Railroad, Stone changed his course abruptly. At 36, he took the helm of Yachting, which his friend Oswald Garrison Villard, publisher of the New York Evening Post and the Nation, had started the year...
...Press Gallery, a few minutes later, a statement from Taft's office alerted reporters to the whispered news: the Senator's hip ailment was serious, and Taft, at 63, was stepping down as majority leader for the rest of the session, turning over the Senate's helm and acting leadership to Knowiand. Other Senators, drifting into the chamber, were unaware of the momentous change until the news began to tick in on the Marble Room teletypes. Newsmen, hurrying down to the Senate floor again, asked Taft to meet them in the President's Room...