Word: ludlow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then to step down to his familiar post as minority leader. From the opening-day scramble Rayburn took time out for an act of simple kindness. With his office full of Congressmen, job-seekers and admirers, Rayburn got an apologetic telephone call from Ohio's freshman Representative Thomas Ludlow Ashley. Ashley's 87-year-old grandmother was in Washington to see young (32) Lud sworn in. For more than 40 years Sam Rayburn had been one of her political heroes, and she wanted to meet him. Said Sam: "Delighted. Bring her down." He talked to the old lady...
...take advantage of cheaper labor. Nash will make the cars through two British firms (Fisher & Ludlow for bodies, Austin for engines), import them to the U.S. in two models, a convertible and hardtop. Price at ports of entry: $1,469 for the convertible, $1,445 for the hardtop (radio and heater $129 extra...
...company prospered in steel and coal as the railroads snaked westward, was bought by the Rockefellers at the turn of the century. But under absentee ownership, C.F. & I. began to falter. Its mines and mills ran down, its labor relations deteriorated. The company became notorious for the famed Ludlow Massacre of 1914, in which 33 men, women and children were shot down by the state militia, most of them C.F. & I.-employed guards. Time and again the Rockefellers tried to sell their old property, but not till Charles Allen came along could they make a deal...
...other U.S. carmakers, Nash knows it can hardly afford to tool up for the limited market such a car may have. So it made a deal with Britain's Austin Motor Co. Ltd. to build the car (still not named) in England. Birmingham's coach-makers Fisher & Ludlow Ltd. will supply the body, Austin the chassis and a 42 h.p. engine. Nash does not expect to sell it as a family car. The new car will carry only three in the single seat, and luggage space will be scanty. But with the car's easy maneuverability...
...somebody did manage to get a persuasive word in edgewise. In 1928 she married a Philadelphia socialite named Ludlow Ogden Smith. Realizing the impossibility of asking Kate to take on a commonplace name like Smith, he changed his name to Ogden Ludlow...