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...also whole or part of "National Defense Week," "National Orange Week," "Better American Speech Week," "National Horace Heidt Record Week."* Last week, too, the biggest U. S. industry revealed that it would for the first time appropriate a week for its special pleading: in Manhattan President Alvan Macauley of the Automobile Manufacturers Association announced that all U. S. motorcar makers would join in spending $1,250,000 to make March 5-12 "National Used Car Exchange Week...
...days later the President received a delegation of motormakers and finance company executives, including Edsel Ford, General Motors' William S. Knudsen, Chrysler Corp.'s K. T. Keller, Packard's Alvan Macauley, Commercial Credit's A. E. Duncan, Commercial Investment Trust's Henry Ittleson. As in most of his co-operation conferences, the President complained about specific aspects of business, this time the evils of easy installment credit and the irregularity of automobile employment. With these points the callers had no quarrel, departed with high resolves...
...poll supervised by NLRB, Packard's 14,780 employes voted 4-to-1 to make U. A. W. their sole bargaining representative. Thus forced to become the first major motorman to grant U. A. W. such a privilege, Packard's President Alvan Macauley sagely observed: "We are pleased that the matter has been determined peacefully and with apparent good will all around...
GREY OF FALLODON-George Macauley Trevelyan-Houghton Mifflin ($3.75). Tender biography of England's Liberal Foreign Minister (1905-1916) whose vocations were birds and fishing, his avocation, politics...
...Detroit last week 4,000 Packard dealers and distributors from all over the U. S. assembled for an infusion of inspiration. A barbecue dinner was served in a huge circus tent. President Alvan Macauley announced that Packard sales for the first eight months of 1936 had been 43,459 cars or 70% above a year ago. And on display, along with the Packard Twelve, the Packard Super-Eight, the Packard Eight and the Packard One-Twenty, was a brand new Packard Six with a 115 in. wheelbase priced to retail in the $800 class. This latest and cheapest addition...