Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston, Mrs. James F. Norris, wife of a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, entered her home, found the living room topsy-turvy, her husband's bedroom locked. She called police who broke open the bedroom door. On Prof. Norm's bed lay John Broderick, burglar, with an open volume of Shakespeare and two empty quart bottles of 1911 Green River whisky...
Last week, however, John North Willys disappeared from the automobile world with the sale of his entire Willys-Overland holdings (some 800,000 shares of common). Nor did any one individual take his place. Purchasers were a combination of Chicago and Toledo interests. The Chicago interest was Field, Glore & Co., acting for Chicago Corp., the Midwest investment trust organized last winter (TIME, Feb. 25). Election of Charles F. Glore and Marshall Field III to the Willys-Overland directorate will be one immediate result of the transaction. The Toledo purchasers were headed by George M. Jones, wealthy head of Toledo...
...Long has John North Willys of Toledo been a Big Automotive Man. He speaks French and English fluently, has often discoursed upon the automobile business, upon U. S. business in general. He contributed $25,000 to the Hoover campaign fund (Postmaster General Brown is a fellow townsman) and he was "responsible" for an additional $125,000. He has been "mentioned" for Ambassador to France, Japan, Turkey. After the War, when King Albert of Belgium visited Toledo as guest of Brand Whitlock, a fleet of Willys-Knights received the royal party. When a newsman in an Oldsmobile attempted to tag along...
...reorganized the company with himself as president, treasurer, general manager, sales manager, purchasing agent. Like Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Mr. Willys was once a cycle-maker. His bicycle plant was at Canandaigua, N. Y., not far from Hammondsport, N. Y., the birthplace of Mr. Curtiss who later built up JOHN NORTH WILLYS Chicago bought him out. Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., which Mr. Willys expanded and controlled during...
...Chicago last week Newsman John Gunther (author, Golden Fleece, Harper's, 1929, $2.50; Eden jor One, Harper's, 1927, $2; Red Pavilion, Harper's, 1926, $2) of the Chicago Daily News went to interview Market Operator Arthur W. Cutten. His mission was apropos of nothing but Mr. Cutten's position as famed Bull. He found Mr. Cutten easy to talk to, difficult to interview...