Word: lohr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orders. Albert Kesselring's job in Tunisia is to hold on as long as possible. He is an officer of the Luftwaffe, as is also Colonel General Alexander Lohr, who commands ground forces in the Balkans. As an air officer, his job will also be to try to effect an ending to the Tunisian campaign which is less bloody than Dun kirk, less shocking to Germans than the failure at Stalingrad...
...Coughlin all week, but it doesn't MacKinney difference if I have a short snort." Huey gulped his drink. "Say, this Israel stuff. I feel like I've been Stark with a pin. I guess I won't be Sheehan much of the game with this stuff in my Lohr egions. We'd better not Delaney longer, or I won't be able to Pilate myself to the Stadium...
...Lohr's ideas of popular science were unpopular with many top-notch scientists. Coldly received last week was his definition of the object of science & industry: "to supply better goods cheaper." Sniffed scholarly Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, dean of physical sciences at University of Chicago: "Faraday, as he discovered the laws of electricity, which are basic to electrical engineering, was not concerned with making better things cheaper. . . . A tragedy has occurred in the cultural life of our city...
...Compton, after a meeting with Lohr, decided museum troubles were due more to financial problems than Lohr management. But Dr. Philip Fox still wondered whether the people of Chicago wanted their museum handled in such a "brazen manner." But there was no mass uprising. Bad sign for Dr. Fox and his 19 ousted colleagues came when the Major bought a $100,000, 14-room mansion in Evanston. Major & Mrs. Lohr planned to move in by Sept. 1 with their five children, a large butterfly collection...
When Lenox Riley Lohr took over the presidency of NBC four years ago, he abolished the job of executive vice president, gathered the management reins tightly in his fists. Not until January 1939 did he relax his grip. Then into the recreated executive vice-presidency went shrewd, softspoken, Georgia-born Niles Trammell, longtime head of NBC's Central Division (headquarters: Chicago). Last week Trammell stepped into the shoes vacated by Lohr when he resigned last month to become president of the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry...