Word: howard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common with most U. S. elevator boys and other brokerage hangers-on, was somewhat overexuberant. Morgan & Co. and its "good neighbor" Bonbright & Co., put up $20,000,000, plus common stocks of great utility systems, giving United $150,000,000 in assets. They installed softspoken, aristocratic George Henry Howard as president of the new utility combine. Howard was one of the smartest graduates of the informal law school that the late Dwight Morrow ran at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett's Manhattan lawshop, before Morrow became a Morgan partner. Howard's best known contemporary in the Morrow schoolroom...
Haydn: Symphony No. 98 in B Flat Major (Salomon No. 4) (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Another first recording, competently performed...
Chattered Eleanor Roosevelt in her syndicated Scripps-Howard column: "Someone sent me a wonderful clip to wear on my nose while swimming. ... I find, however, it is going to require some little time before I can breathe with ease through my mouth alone...
...interest, the 10% of their salaries the Post's staff members had been contributing to the paper since last September and to hire Cartoonist Rollin Kirby, who was dropped by the World-Telegram in March after he had shown himself too pronounced a liberal for the Scrippsless Scripps-Howard newspaper...
...newspaper to the maintenance and upbuilding of which I have sacrificed my health and strength. . . .") Ralph Pulitzer, who cared more for big game hunting than for journalism, took over the World, in its last years delegated its management to other executives, finally sold it in 1931 to the Scripps-Howard chain. Still flourishing under Brother Joseph Jr. is Pulitzer paper No. 2, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...