Word: helm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time. But it will have to battle some of the brightest lights of U.S. business. Among the rebelling foundation trustees-appointed by R. H. Kress himself-are New York Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston; Frank M. Folsom, executive committee chairman of Radio Corp. of America; and Harold H. Helm, board chairman of Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank...
...week. Tatterdemalion crowds surged and shoved into the battlemented Castel Nuovo, where the kings of Anjou once ruled the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. A huge sign went with them: "For the love of your Naples, do not resign! The ship is in peril, you must stay at the helm!" The mob was out in defense of Naples' Mayor Achille Lauro, the flamboyant millionaire shipowner and Monarchist whose freewheeling administration has won him the title of Il Re del Mezzogiorno ("The King of the South...
...Gerard Swope, 84, white-haired, sparky longtime president of General Electric Co.. whose charge to the top began in 1893 as a dollar-a-day student helper ("a dirty, oily job") in the Chicago plant; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. An M.I.T. electrical-engineering graduate, Swope took the G.E. helm in 1922, consolidated its holdings over the next 17 years, diversified the company, built it into a $300 million corporation. Together with his radical board chairman, Owen D. Young, he was responsible for some of the most far-reaching labor policies in American industry, put into operation (after...
...regarding the new House, if the mediocre, indeed incoherent design conception of the west elevation is an indication of the interior of this structure, then Harvard has commissioned a building that will ... give future generations just cause to condemn the aesthetic judgement of those who are now at the helm of the College...
...selling Scotch whisky. As to brother John for President, in spite of the frenetic buildup being given him, let us remember that America is primarily a Protestant country and the majority of our people would not want a man who believes in a foreign ideology to stand at the helm of our Government...