Word: knauth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Macy & Co. (mammoth Manhattan department store) when he did so well on a report about the linoleum industry that Executive Vice President Oswald Whitman Knauth made him his assistant. At 30, Mr. Hoving was himself a Macy executive vice president. In 1932 Sewell Lee Avery made him vice president & general sales manager of Montgomery Ward & Co. in Chicago, told him to put sex appeal into Ward's catalog, packaging, merchandising. Walter Hoving did a good job.- Last spring his old boss, Oswald Whitman Knauth, now president of Associated Dry Goods Corp., which controls eight U. S. department stores...
Commented New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia: "There are some people who laugh if they hear a foreign language spoken-they think that's funny." At week's end the Mayor acted. By radio he informed citizens that Oswald Whitman Knauth, Ph.D., 47, department store executive and onetime Princeton economics instructor, had been appointed "super-director" of city relief...
Announced Super-director Knauth: "I bring to this job nothing but horse sense. Perhaps I'm an idiot for taking...
Sunday afternoon the Harvard Glee Club sang at the Harvard Club of New York with E. F. Knauth Jr. '24, conducting...
...University Glee Club will again take part in the annual Intercollegiate Glee Club contest to be held this evening for the eleventh time in Carnegie Hall, New York City. Thirty men will sing in the Harvard chorus under the direction of E. F. Knauth...