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Stunned, the new board of directors met hastily. New President Preston Lockwood, who had been upped from corporation secretary, indignantly denied that Brewster would go out of business, but admitted that "substantial layoffs will be in evitable." This meant that some 10,000 workers in Brewster's Long Island plants will probably be laid off this week. These plants already have enough parts backlogged to complete the reduced contract. The 2,500 in the final assembly plant at Johnsville will probably face a similar layoff within a month...
...York Legislature, he sponsored many of Tom Dewey's criminal-reform bills. These men will plan the grand strategy of the Dewey campaign. Other advisers, concerned with more detailed and technical matters, include the Governor's smooth, husky executive secretary, Paul Lockwood; his press manager, James C. Hagerty,* onetime New York Timesman; Hickman Powell, ex-expert New York Herald Tribune reporter; his Banking Superintendent, Elliott V. Bell, and Secretary of State Thomas J. Curran, who is also Manhattan G.O.P. leader. Last week, to the delight of Democrats, Tom Curran brought out an official Dewey campaign song...
...Public Enemy No. 1. Boss of the raiders is Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood Jr., who, when he was promoted from Rear Admiral, sent a message to his force expressing pride that the work of Submarines Pacific had brought him the advancement. The Navy's youngest Vice Admiral (53), he frequently rides the subs with his commanders. He has served in submarines for most of his career. His first command was one of the first submarines to go beyond the experimental stage the A2, in 1914. His immediate superior is a submarine man whose son is in the service...
...make solid connections on the political side. He works hand in glove with shrewd Edwin F. Jaeckle, State G.O.P. chairman, and J. Russel Sprague, boss of Nassau County's Republican machine. He maintains close working relations with G.O.P. legislative leaders. His political secretary is smooth, amiable Paul E. Lockwood, his onetime executive assistant in the District Attorney's office...
Featured in the second part of the program was a capella chorus by Norman Lockwood from a text by Walt Whitman. In 1938 it was awarded the World Fair choral composition prize. Other numbers included four choruses from Offenbach's opera "La Bella Helene," folk songs arranged by Dvorak and Delany, and three Bach chorales...