Word: herman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When 30 phone calls-to the oil company, to the police, to the board of health, to the Mayor's office-and two personal trips to the authorities failed to produce oil to heat his Queens Village, N.Y. home, Herman Steinmetz, 78, an architectural sculptor, hanged himself...
...friend has suggested that Peck virtually never goes out evenings because he is terrified at the possibility of running into some of the community's better-known Bright Boys. "I am short of the old I-am," he explains. "When I get mixed up with Nunnally Johnson or Herman Mankiewicz or Ben Hecht, I am struck dumb. I feel more comfortable in front of a camera." Actually, the very sound brain in his head doesn't run either to wit or to highbrow intellectual discussion. Alfred Hitchcock has said of him that he is probably the most anecdoteless...
...board acted on behalf of two companies. The first was Herman Lowenstein, Inc., a leather manufacturer of Gloversville, N.Y. The company asked the board to hold an election to decide which of two contesting unions might represent its workers. One of the unions was the C.I.O. Fur & Leather Workers, whose president, Ben Gold, is an avowed Communist and naturally has not signed the affidavit. That ruled out his union as far as the election was concerned...
...generation of Ridders was coming along nicely. Three months ago, when New York University Economist Jules Bogen left the editor's chair at the New York Journal of Commerce, Bernard J. Ridder took over at the Journal. Now Bernard and his brother Eric, two of Founding Father Herman Ridder's eight grandsons, will go on the board of the Chicago Journal...
Gleam. Texas Eastern had begun as a gleam in the eyes of E. Holley Poe, an Oklahoma-born gas consultant; Everette Lee De Golyer, Texas' famed oil geologist ; Charles I. Francis, a Houston lawyer, and Houston's shipyard-building brothers, George and Herman Brown (TIME, Feb. 24). They advanced some $250,000 (later repaid by the company) in the early stages of engineering, planning and bidding. When down payments totaling $5,100,000 had to be made to the War Assets Administration, Dillon, Read's help was sought. Dillon, Read & Co., with the Browns, et al, lent...