Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swope, however. Many opponents qualified their opposition, indicating that if the strict six-hour, five-day-and-no-more provision were made more flexible, they might feel differently. Henry Ford was reported in favor of the bill. Two other notable industrialists who favor the general idea include Lamont duPont, president of E. I. duPont de Nemours, which instituted a six-hour day in October, 1931, and Herbert Lee Pratt, chairman of Socony-Vacuum, which instituted a five-day week last fall. Many a great corporation is already providing its workers with no more than 30 hours work a week, many...
...addition to President Lowell, the speakers will include Walter Lippmann '10, author and journalist; T. W. Lamont '02, banker; R. J. Bulkeley '02, United States Senator from Ohio; and C. C. Bolton '05, member of the House of representatives...
...Edward T. Stotesbury, sparring partner (as a stunt) of Heavyweight Tommy Loughran, good friend of Joseph Hergesheimer, vice president of Peerless Motor Co., published a book about current economic evils called The Voice of Young America (Scribner- $1.00). Said he: "I'm not a radical like Corliss Lamont. I'm a capitalist, but not their kind. I can see a lot more peril from the right wingers than from the left. I don't condemn people who have earned their wealth by giving something in return. Henry Ford is one of those. But I call 'privocrats...
...appoint her his U. S. agent. Disorder in Palestine prevented. Home again Miss Ilma edited a pulp magazine, wrote fashion news in Cleveland, department store advertising in Manhattan; acted in Floyd Dell's Cloudy with Showers, learned acrobatic dancing, raised $10,000 for her magazine from Mrs. Thomas Lamont, Julian Huxley, any of her friends who would contribute, went to Chicago and got further backing from a printer. She smokes only pipes, has about three dozen of them, got 14 tins of tobacco for Christmas...
...posing grounds behind the White House President Hoover led his Cabinet for its last group photograph. Of its original 1929 members four were missing-War's Good, Treasury's Mellon. Commerce's Lamont, Labor's Davis. The President sat down, hunched up his left shoulder. Vice President Curtis and Secretary of the Treasury Mills swung right leg over left, Secretary of War Hurley, left leg over right. Camera shutters clucked. The Cabinet rarely looked more darkly dignified. Piped a photographer: "Can't you gentlemen please look a little more cheerful this time?" Laughter at such...