Word: lumberman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase if left unchecked, eventually bringing low prices. Chairman of the committee is Harry Hartke, a soft-spoken Kentucky farmer who is president of French Bros. Dairy Products, Cincinnati. Big, good-natured Mr. Hartke did not seem the sort of man to propose a vast cow slaughter without reason. Lumberman as well as dairyman, he had never countenanced waste. And, indeed, upon closer examination, it was seen that what Mr. Hartke's committee intended was not that the cows should be slain and buried, but that they should be slain and eaten...
...chairman (who succeeds Edward James Nolan) is Lynn Porter Talley, known to his profession as "a hard-boiled banker," one who has never let enthusiasm replace collateral, Texas-born (in 1881), he became a teller in a Dallas bank in 1901. In 1911 he was cashier of Lumberman's National Bank (now Second National) of Houston. Four years later he was cashier in Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, of which he was in 1925 made Governor. It is this position which portly, bespectacled, serious-faced Banker Talley resigns to bring "hardboiled banking" to Bank of America, probably the biggest...
...another steamer off the coast of Alaska thought he heard a plane overhead, but there was no further clue. Weather was bad. Neither Moyle nor Allen was an experienced long distance flyer or navigator. Their plane, named the Clasina Madge for the daughter of Backer John Buffelin, Tacoma lumberman, had failed twice before: once (as the City of Tacoma) when Bromley & Gatty flew it 1,200 mi. from Tokyo and were forced back with a broken exhaust pipe; once when (as the Pacific) Thomas Ash Jr. was unable to take it off with the necessary fuel load. Japanese authorities took...
Three weeks ago Mississippi held its primary with some 7,000 local candidates on the ballot. High men for Governor were Hugh White, rich lumberman, Mayor of Columbia, and Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner, smiling lawyer-farmer of Seminary. Completely turned out then was the Bilbo faction of Mississippi Democracy. In last week's run-off primary, with 2,000 names on the full ballot, Candidate Conner defeated Candidate White handsomely. "People v. Money" was the campaign issue, with Conner harping on White's wealth. A typical Conner campaign speech in which the Jackson Daily News, supporting Candidate White...
...gauge railroad that runs to the coast. Then he fled. Yelling "Viva Sandino," the bandits fell savagely upon Logtown. Under a breadfruit tree they killed John Phelps, timber inspector for Standard Fruit's logging interests. They cut his body to bits. They threw Joseph Luther Pennington, another Standard Fruit Lumberman, into a river, peppered him to death with shots. Back in the logging camp they woke up Ripley Davis, planter, to murder him in cold blood, cut off his head and stick it on a fence post. Then they sacked the commissary...