Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of Commerce Lament will rusticate on his son's ranch at Larkspur...
...ideal success-story would show President McInnerney setting out on his march to dairy tycoonship along a pretty, rural cow path. But he admits and does not lament the fact that he has never milked a cow, never attempted it. He was raised in Dubuque, went to University of Illinois where he studied pharmacy. For five years he owned and ran a drugstore in Chicago. This he found less to his liking than he had expected and his next experience was the general managership of Siegel, Cooper & Co., Manhattan department store. In 1914 he returned to Chicago, formed Consumers...
...meeting of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce at Atlantic City last week went Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament to carry cautious words of cheer. Emphatically he reiterated President Hoover's major doctrine that wages must be maintained, praised Industry for the "fine spirit" with which it has responded to this White House "request...
Likeliest candidate to succeed President Farrell seemed to be I. Lament Hughes, president of Carnegie Steel, great U. S. Steel subsidiary. Two previous Carnegie presidents (Charles Michael Schwab and William Ellis Corley) succeeded to the U. S. Steel presidency. Furthermore, Mr. Hughes is only 53, would not have to retire until 1948. Tall (6 ft. plus), with thin brown hair, careful in dress and somewhat pompous in bearing, Mr. Hughes frequently walks the four miles between home and office, makes the trip in about an hour and five minutes. He considers his wife "51% of our private corporation." A remarkable...
...Department of Commerce publishes statistics to prove that over 80 percent of the fatal airplane accidents are due directly to human failure. We lament fatal accidents and condole grieving relatives: but we also point out that these are avoidable. Proper training, sane flying, and a bit of reflection will obviate most of these accidents: also due consideration will not always lay the blame on aviation as a dangerous pastime not to be indulged in by college undergraduates. The Dartmouth