Word: irvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, six months ago, the vice president of American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. arrived from Pittsburgh to be made operating vice president of the parent company, there was little stir in the House of Steel. William A. Irvin (pronounced: Irwin) was given an office down on the 14th floor, far away from the real executive headquarters. He soon and often thereafter returned to Pittsburgh to inspect the noisy mills which are the Corporation's core. When at No. 71 Broadway, he worked hard at the used desk which had been given him. Few of the New York personnel wandered...
...those not important enough to dine in it) as the "Doughnut Room." Waiters hovered anxiously near the table, for they had heard by the house grapevine that the successor of resigning President Farrell was to be announced. When, in the "Doughnut Room," it was heard that William A. Irvin had been chosen by the directors to become president of the Corporation, the waiters huddled together. "Which one is he?" they whispered. Up on the 17th and 18th floors the news; was heard with surprise, bewilderment. And then somebody said, "Oh, yes, he's the new man on the 14th floor...
...summary: LEVERETT YALE 1933 Lovejoy, l.f. r.f., Furcolome Fields, c. c., Crowell, Hyatt Leavan, r.f. l.f., Van Wynckle, Weschler Shapiro, Johnson, Preston, l.g. r.g., Stevens, Prettis Henderson, McNott, r.g. l.g., Irvin...
Score--Leverett 31, Yale 17. Field goals--Leverett: Shapiro 5, Fields 3, Levan 2, Lovejoy 2, Henderson; Yale: Crowell 3, Van Wynckle 3, Irvin 2. Foul goals--Leverett: Henderson 3, Shapiro 2; Yale: Van Wynckle...
...Barry charges are puzzling. I was present at a dinner party once where Mr. Irvin S. Cobb ventured to assert that he could write a successful novel in the Harold Bell Wright manner. I heard Mr. Cobb admit later that he had been unable to bring off a single chapter. He found that he could not make his characters talk or deport themselves in the stilted style of the Wright heroes and heroines...