Word: kidders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thread. A Coats Co. stockholder, flood-bound at the Alley house, was so impressed by this contraption that he sent Felix a fine store banjo and persuaded the company to use a picture of a barefoot, banjo-playing boy as a trademark. At 16 Felix also wrote a ballad, Kidder Cole, which became famous...
There are no big slums in Stockholm. And there are no flies on Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art-a reputation it once again proved last week by putting on in Manhattan one of its traveling shows, Stockholm Builds: 101 careful camera studies by Architect G. E. Kidder Smith. Stockholm's houses (over 30% of them built in the last ten years) and public buildings are the world's models-famed for intelligent modern architecture, well-planned integration, neat, modest lines. The Swedes have no great architects, no great planners: their success is the community...
...insurance man who made a stake in Missouri zinc before the turn of the century-says he has "lent" Scotty a great deal of money over the years since they met in 1904. "He repays me," Mr. Johnson explains, "in laughs." Mr. Johnson is reputed to be quite a kidder himself...
...Bureau of Standards tests were seven years old at the time of the Kidder hearings, were described from memory by witnesses who had kept no records of them...
After this sad record was spread out, FTC officials admitted last week they had "slipped badly," said they would reorganize their legal setup so that no FTC lawyer would ever go to court again with sieve instead of brief. But Mr. Kidder was left to wonder whether he had won anything but a moral victory. Said he: "The FTC [was] about as successful in putting us out of business as they would have been had we not appealed...