Word: lumberman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presidency of a tax-supported university is always sensitive to political change. So found Dr. Henry Suzzallo when he was president of the University of Washington. Politically adroit, able at money-raising, careful to dine with the right people, he nonetheless erred by snubbing a Washington lumberman named Roland H. Hartley. In 1926 Dr. Suzzallo lost his job; Hartley had become Governor and got even. Under Dr. Suzzallo the University had grown, but grown expensive. Under Governor Hartley and the University's next president, Matthew Lyle Spencer, the University experienced sharp economies, a re-organization last summer (TIME...
Foster son of William Hoover Yawkey, Detroit lumberman and onetime owner of the Detroit Tigers, Thomas Austin Yawkey inherited $4,000,000 from his mother, who died when he was 15. Last month, on his 30th birthday, he got almost as much from the estate of his foster father who died in 1919. To help him run his team as vice president and general manager, Owner Yawkey chose Eddie Collins, famed second baseman and coach of the Philadelphia Athletics. They planned to retain Marty McManus who managed the Red Sox ably for the last half of the 1932 season...
...story told how a Paducah, Ky. lumberman named Fain W. King found the burial mounds such as are common in Kentucky and Ohio. In one of them he discovered "1,000 skeletons," flint arrowheads, bits of metal that may have indicated a traveling and trading people. But the basis for the "3,000-year-old" guess, the delineation of civilization and culture, were obscure. No archaeologist of standing could last week be located to say whether the Wickliffe diggings were a "buried city" or another Indian burial ground...
Woodman Spared, For many months a few disgruntled bondholders have sought to put Long-Bell Lumber Co., biggest in the world, into receivership (TIME, Feb. 1). In dismissing their petition last week Judge Merrill E. Otis of Kansas City praised the management of 81-year-old Lumberman Robert Alexander Long, found all his transactions aboveboard...
...fortune, he joined in their vote to continue, promptly dispatched men into the Northwest to buy great tracts of Douglas fir. For the new venture they bought extensively, carefully. "A poor log costs as much to cut up as a good log, yes, and more," mused the little old lumberman...