Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able Illinois lawyer, grandson of Democratic Vice President Adlai ("The Headsman") Stevenson (who distinguished himself by discreetly purging some 40,000 Republican postmasters when Grover Cleveland became President). Young Stevenson entered public service as Assistant General-Counsel to the Federal Alcoholic Control Administration, subsequently became assistant to Secretaries Knox, Hull, Stettinius...
...revive the habit of courtesy to customers (a wartime casualty in England as in the U.S.), Retailer Fred Trippett of Hull instituted a novel incentive plan last week. Trippett handed out envelopes containing ten shilling notes to customers chosen at random, asked them to give them to the "most helpful and considerate" clerk. Said Trippett of his plan: "I have 25 girls on my staff and it is certainly keeping-them on their toes...
...buyer: Lipsett, Inc., a Jamestown, N.Y. steel scrap firm. Lipsett intends to cut the Normandie down to the waterline, then raise the hull and break it up. Total cost of the operation: between...
Theater Guild on the Air (Sun. lop.m., ABC). Josephine Hull and Fred Stone in You Can't Take It With...
While Phase II continues, there are others anxious to get themselves on record. Henry Morgenthau Jr., Dutchess County neighbor of F.D.R., is gathering material for a book. Also in the works: memoirs of Cordell Hull, and of the late Harry Hopkins, both scheduled for 1947. Jim Farley, who in 1938 got $68,500 for a not-too-revealing autobiography, is known to have a more critical book in mind, but is in no hurry; he wants to see what others tell first. So does Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, who says "I think I will just wait." The late President himself, according...