Word: ironton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc. of Canton, Ohio. President Louis Herbert Brush has owned the small Salem News since 1901. In 1923 he teamed up with Roy Donald Moore to buy the Marion Star from Warren Gamaliel Harding. Other Brush-Moore papers are in Canton, Portsmouth, East Liverpool, Steubenville, Ironton (half interest), Ohio; Salisbury and Wicomico...
...write as he saw fit, turned away. Then, according to Stuart, he was slugged three times with a blackjack. He locked his arms around Allen's neck and grappled with him on the drugstore floor. Spectators pulled them apart, sent Stuart to a hospital across the Ohio in Ironton...
...complaints that the other directors shoved him around', deceived him, the public and the President, wasted TVA money, based yardstick rates on spurious or nonexistent cost calculations. But if Oldster Arthur Morgan would cut no capers to supply entertainment, loud Representative Thomas A. Jenkins, a Republican from Ironton, Ohio, made up for the deficiency...
...unexplained dismissal which surprised Fordling Cowling and shocked his admirers, but those most frequently mentioned were his pronounced independence and the habit formed by some Ford dealers of referring to the Ford distribution system as the "Cowling System." Adaptable Bill Cowling, once president of Ford-owned Detroit, Toledo & Ironton R. R., was never paid the heroic salary popularly supposed. Henry Ford's sales manager got $35,000 per year and even the bonus in good years seldom brought it close to six figures...
...time when Henry Ford was apparently intent on doing every kind of business incidental to the manufacture of automobiles. He provided himself with his own steel mills, his own glass works, his own credit corporation for financing retail sales, even his own railroad (the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton)-all the elements of a great vertical combination, except that for the most part they were, not combined, but erected. More recently he has apparently reversed his intent. As early as 1929 he disposed of his railroad. Last week he was actively dickering for the sale of his retail finance company, Universal...