Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calvin Coolidge appointed to the Federal Trade Commission a goat-bearded onetime Congressman from Seattle named William E. Humphrey. He served his six-year term, was reappointed by President Hoover in 1931 for another six years...
...HUMPHREY...
...Steel was merger of Steelman Weir's Weirton Steel (which lacked adequate ore reserves), Cleveland's M. A. Hanna Co. (which had them) and Great Lakes Steel, whose plants were right at the back door of the automobile industry. Mr. Weir's fellow wisemen were George Humphrey of M. A. Hanna, who is now National Steel's executive committee chairman, and George R. Fink of Great Lakes Steel,, who is now National's president...
...production left little to be desired. The one setting by Norman Bel Geddes was impressively stark and simple. The characters were expertly portrayed by such singers as Rosa Tentoni (Iphigénie), Cyrena van Gordon (Clytemnestra), Joseph Bentonelli (Achilles), Georges Baklanoff (Agamemnon). For the dances Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey supplied excellent choreography, won great applause. Again Philadelphia Orchestramen proved their superiority to routine opera players...
...Stopes married rich Humphrey Verdon Roe, pioneer designer of airplanes, who finances her birth control propaganda in England...