Word: libbey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks' report); American Light & Traction from $5,368,893 to $5,919,580; Westinghouse Air Brake from $1,153,091 to $1,846,833; Electric Bond & Share from $2,431,460 to $2.571,601; American Chicle from $831.281 to $1,022,665; Libbey-Owens-Ford up from $2,266,988 to $3,216,690. For the first nine months Libbey-Owens was nearly $1,500,000 above last year's $7,369,960. An old market standby, American Telephone & Telegraph reported that in the fiscal year ending Aug. 31 earnings were up from...
...bill which called for an unemployment census, appropriated $5,000,000 and left the kind of job to be done up to the New Deal. Last month, Franklin Delano Roosevelt picked the man for the job. He was 49-year-old "Liberal Republican" President John D. Biggers, of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., whose "enlightened labor policies" brought him to Presidential notice. Last week, Mr. Biggers' plans for his census were complete...
...Theatre Critic fohn Mason Brown shared the transports of classical scholars when it was opened in 1933. The Museum's collection is as exceptional as its building. Both are the fruit of the artistic interests of Toledo's late eminent glassmaker, Edward Drummond Libbey. He founded the Museum in 1901 and the endowment he left it on his death in 1925 is supposed to be anywhere from...
...adhere with exemplary firmness to a policy of never accepting a bequest with any strings attached to it, never accepting any more of a private collection than he wants, and buying "only the best of its kind whether we like it personally or not." By this standard Founder Libbey began and Mr. Godwin has continued to amass one of the best- balanced collections of art in the U. S. now ranking perhaps fifth among the nation's museums...
...with 49%. Director Godwin and his wife, Molly Ohl Godwin, have built up this following by offering free courses in drawing, painting and music to all the schoolchildren of Toledo, by bringing the best symphony orchestras for free concerts in the Museum's peristyle, thus spending Founder Libbey's money as much for the benefit of Toledo's citizens as for the enrichment of their museum...