Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maker of headlines, most successful third-party Nominee this year has been Communist Earl Browder. In this he was conspicuously aided by unknown persons of Tampa, Fla., who locked him out of the hall where he was to speak, and by the police of Terre Haute, Ind., who locked him up as a vagrant (TIME, Oct. 12). Born in Kansas, son of a country schoolmaster, Earl Browder's own schooling ended at 9 when his father had a breakdown and the son got a job as an errand boy. He studied bookkeeping, became office manager of a farmers...
...when Spain's Hernando de Soto explored the Mississippi River Valley, but it was not until after the Civil War that the nuts were used for much besides feeding hogs. First commercial sheller-dealer of any importance in the U. S. was a Swiss-born cake and candy maker, Gustave Antonio Duerler of San Antonio, Tex., who, in 1882, found a market for a few barrels of pecan meats he shipped East on a gamble. Today one out of every five nuts eaten in the U. S. is a pecan. Only peanuts and walnuts are more popular.* Peanuts contain...
...butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker joined whole heartedly with the barber, the secondhand man, the House waitresses and biddies in the latest CRIMSON presidential poll. Roosevelt led Landon by 321 to 268 and was ahead throughout, but it was not until the last vote was counted that third place was decided. The result was that Colonel Charles R. Apted '09 ran hand in hand with Communist Browder and Union Lemke, each garnering 13 votes...
With this successful storekeeping experience behind it, Atlas last week bought another big Manhattan store, Franklin Simon & Co. Like Bonwit Teller, Frank lin Simon is a collection of women's specialty shops, not a department store. Founded in 1902 by the son of a Manhattan cigar maker who started at 13 as a sample boy with Manhattan's Stern Brothers, Franklin Simon was the first big Fifth Avenue store above 34th Street. As Stern's foreign buyer, Simon became impressed by French style. When he opened his own store, he picked a Frenchman for his original partner...
...Stuttgart that Robert Bosch first set himself up as a maker of magnetos with little capital except his ingenuity and training, part of which was gained in a short turn in the U. S. in Edison's laboratories. In early days the Bosch magneto was used on stationary internal combustion engines, was not adapted to an automobile until 1896. And it was not until Bosch began to make a high-tension magneto with high-tension spark plugs- a simplified ignition system-that Bosch became an international name. By 1912 he had made 1,000,000 magnetos...