Word: houghtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peter Arno tradition. A soft-spoken New Englander of 57, President Smith is a self-made man who became general manager of Hartford-Empire's predecessor, Hartford-Fairmont Co., in 1915. He owns only a small block of stock in Hartford-Empire; most of it belongs to the Houghton family (Corning Glass Co.) and Beech-Nut Packing Co. Beech-Nut created the company in 1912 while looking for a good glass jar machine...
...patriots, he believes that the thread of U. S. destiny was lost somewhere in the tangle of the Civil War. As citizens the agrarians think they can tie that thread into modern life, as poets they feel that the thread has gone for good. In Lee in the Mountains (Houghton Mifflin, $2), a book of short narrative poems, Davidson's heroes are dead men, whose heroism he tries to embalm in lifelike verses. Sample (on Andrew Jackson's statue in Nashville...
...added to that a well-drilled team that performs excellently as a unit also. The problem of the defense, which was most badly weakened by graduation of mainstays from last year's six, seems to have been eliminated in a more than satisfactory manner through the work of Charlie Houghton, Win Jameson and Bill Coleman...
AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES - Federal Writers' Project. Best: NEW YORK PANORAMA (Random House, $2.50), NEW ORLEANS (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50), MISSISSIPPI (Viking...
LETTERS OF HENRY ADAMS, 1892-1918 -Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford-Houghton Mifflin...