Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson & others do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...
...After another long stretch, a big time Capone-style badman has reappeared, and after several uncomfortable roles as farmer, professor, and sundry other sincere people, Edward G. Robinson has joyfully hoped into the gangster's shell to be Johnny Rocco, yah, Johnny Rocco, King of the Underworld. Throw in Humphrey Bogart and a fast moving plot, season with Lionel Barrymore, spice with Lauren Bacall and you have Key Largo, the best gangster show since High Sierra...
...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor & others do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...
Rayon & Heir. It was obvious that Detroit's motor industry, biggest U.S. steel consumer, could use a mill of its own. But it had none until Humphrey put together Great Lakes Steel, later merged it into National Steel Corp. (27% Hanna-controlled). Long before the industry itself woke up to the fact, Humphrey discovered that Cleveland's Industrial Rayon Corp. was revolutionizing the rayon industry by a continuous spinning process; Hanna bought control (17%). In 1945 he merged some of Hanna's coal interests into the mammoth new Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. (57% Hanna), and became boss...
Still looking ahead, Humphrey has picked his heir apparent. He is a big (6 ft.) Tennessean, Joseph H. Thompson, who joined Hanna eleven years ago after an Alger-like rise in banking (he was a vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. at 32). It was Joe Thompson, now 48, who thought up the Butler Brothers deal, and worked it out. Last week, when Humphrey and his syndicate formed Consumers Ore Co. to manage Butler, they made Thompson its president...