Word: insuranceman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Thomas Elmer Braniff, 70, Oklahoma City insuranceman, founder-president of Braniff International Airways (1928), the nation's sixth largest airline; with eleven others in the crash of a privately owned Mallard amphibian plane which iced up on the way home from a duck-hunting trip; on the shore of Lake Wallace, near Shreveport...
...checking into the Plainsman Hotel in Williston, was a Texan who said he was "looking over a few farms to pick up a lease or two." When he learned that Miller was with TIME, he said: "You fellows wrote me up once." The Texan, it turned out, was Dallas Insuranceman Robert Baxter, who had made this exultant boast in mid-1948: "This is a great world, and the U.S. is the greatest country in the world-and Texas is the greatest state in the U.S. and Dallas is the greatest city in Texas and the Rio Grande [National Life Insurance...
Suits & Charges. But the board was still not out of trouble. After taking care of Insuranceman Becker, the jury accused Board Member J. Paul Elliott of misconduct for taking $4,400 in legal fees from the Landier interests. In the meantime, the parents of the child who was killed on a blacktopped playground brought suit against the board for $50,000. The parents of another child later killed the same way sued for $351,000. Finally, the grand jury made up its mind about the question of the telephone operators, declared that the board had "condoned" discrimination against "colored, Jewish...
...Insuranceman Gallahue (American States Insurance Co.) laid out the campaign. Ministers in each of Indiana's 17 Methodist districts were asked to select one or more outstanding boys in their congregations who might be candidates for the ministry. Then, at a big get-together in Indianapolis, the boys were to be exposed to the arguments for devoting their lives to the church. Nothing high-pressure, though, said Bishop Raines-"We prepare the soil and plant the seed and then let God's sunshine do the work...
...Indianapolis' Broadway Methodist Church for further discussion and field trips. They were joined by teen-age girls who wanted to become missionaries, church secretaries, Sunday school teachers or social workers. In all, the experiment netted 350 who were interested enough in church vocations to ask for more information. Insuranceman Gallahue picked up the tab for the whole affair: about...