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Word: leah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marrying the boss's daughter is something of a tradition in American Rolling Mill Co. Armco's founder and chairman, white-haired, patriarchal George Matthew Verity, married his boss's daughter; Armco's president, wiry, little Charles Ruffin Hook, married Leah Verity. And President Hook would probably be delighted if his daughter, Jean Catherine, now in school in Connecticut, wed an up-&-coming Armco man. For good relations with its employes is a prime Armco policy. Last week Armco's happy relations with its workers-attested by the fact that it has had no strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Steel Homesteads | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...Armco's Mr. Hook also still has the conviction he developed while working up through the steel industry-that the No. 1 Big Business problem is its relations with employes and public. In 1911 Armco's General Superintendent Hook married President George Verity's daughter, Leah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reduced Goose | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...Leah R. Sedman, assistant in bacteriology, School of Public health Johns Hopkins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINETEEN ARE ADDED TO HARVARD FACULTY | 9/30/1937 | See Source »

...President Hook also married the boss's daughter, Leah Verity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Eternal Verity | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...Menjou) on the lookout for new talent while touring the Alps with his own troupe-of which the chief virtue is the fact that it is not much impaired by interruptions. In addition to Sonja Henie's skating, these include harmonica-tooting by Borrah Minnevitch & band, singing by Leah Ray, outrageous clowning by the Ritz Brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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