Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shooter presented him by the citizens of Laredo-no one was prouder of this biggest Ranger roundup in two years than William ("Bill") Sterling. Last month he became commandant of the Rangers when Governor Ross D. Sterling (no kin) appointed him Adjutant General of the State. A lean six-footer, he is a graduate of Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College, was a lieutenant of infantry during the War but was kept from going overseas by powder-burned eyes. He has been a Ranger for four years, having commanded troopers in the border country. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum has selected...
...give up hope was lean, grey-haired John Reynard Todd of the engineering firm of Todd Robertson Todd.* In New York his firm is responsible for the much admired Graybar and Cunard buildings. John Reynard Todd is a great & good friend of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. A qualified lawyer, he is an able pleader. Last May he had many interviews with Mr. Rockefeller, with Merlin Hall Aylesworth, president of National Broadcasting Co. and with officials of Radio Corp. of America and Radio-Keith-Orpheum. In June it was announced that the great project would go forward, not as an opera...
Interesting as a business fight, the Strotz-Ringling battle is significant of a change that has come over the show industry in Chicago. Sidney Strotz, the tail, lean, hard-chinned younger son of a North Shore socialite family, has been successful in a variety of businesses (wrapping-machinery, Korn King products, auto supplies) since leaving Cornell in 1919. Like most of his friends he lives in fashionable Lake Forest. One of his friends who did not live in Lake Forest was the late Patrick T. ("Paddy") Harmon, proprietor of "Dreamland" (dance pavilion) and promoter of bicycle races who was killed...
...seriously hurt, not even before de la Cierva learned how to build a rotor that would not fly itself to pieces. Promoter. In sharp contrast to the flamboyant, drum-beating promoter who caused the disastrous aviation "boom" of three years ago, stands Harold F. Pitcairn, 34. Lean, conservative, outwardly humorless, he is third son of the late John Pitcairn, founder of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. The elder Pitcairn, a follower of the Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg, gave land near the family home at Bryn Athyn, Pa. for the beautiful Swedenborgian Cathedral (New Jerusalem Church) which now stands there...
...Andrew William Mellon was already a tycoon to be reckoned with. He was 45, lean and quiet. The Union Trust which he had founded eleven years prior had grown and become a mighty instrument in his skilled hands. He had an iron in many industrial fires already glowing, he had irons in other fires just kindling. Nine years had passed since he had bought into Aluminum Co. of America and the investment began to look promising. He held a lot of bonds in an oil company sponsored by that picturesque Pittsburgher, J. M. Guffey. Six years later those bonds were...