Word: howard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finally found someone to fill the important job of chairman of the Munitions Board, a post for which the Senate had refused to accept Carl A. Ilgenfritz because he would not give up his $70,000 salary from U.S. Steel. The nominee: Hubert E. Howard, 60-year-old Chicago coal executive, who has been serving as personnel policy chief in the Defense Department...
Build a Fire. Howard called up redheaded Walker Stone, 45-year-old boss of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers' Washington bureau, gave him his assignment and told him: "Build a fire. Stir up the animals." Stone set Reporter Andrew Tully to prowling the corridors of the State Department, assigned Oland D. Russell, his Far Eastern expert, to dig up other angles, briefed Editorial Writer Parker La Moore on the campaign ahead. Cartoonist Harold Talburt sharpened his Pulitzer-Prizewinning pencil...
When globe-trotting Publisher Roy Wilson Howard went to Moscow in 1936 to interview Joseph Stalin he also met a bearded, scholarly American named Angus Ward, then U.S. consul in Moscow. He heard of him no more until last October, when he read that Ward, by then U.S. consul in Mukden, Manchuria, had been clapped in jail by the Chinese Communist government. Like many another indignant American, Roy Howard waited for stern and decisive action by the U.S. State Department to get its consul out of jail. After a wait of weeks, while State hemmed & hawed and did nothing either...
David M. Abbot, William L. Alden, Edward F. Burke, Charles R. Brynteson, James R. Carman, Albert B. Carter, Jr., William H. Claflin, Daniel A. Cronin, William L. Curwen, Charles W. Detjon, Wilbur M. Davis, Jerome P. Gavin, Alfred M. Goodloe, Jr., Bruce Harriman, Frederick D. Houghteling, Amory Houghton, Jr., Howard E. Houston, Frank S. Jones, Edward P. Lenahan, David C. Poskanzer, Walter B. Raushenbush, John G. Simon, Thomas C. Simons, and Jonathan M. Spivak...
...Howard (postal); Siena (postal...