Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orator, Mr. Borah's chief characteristics are deliberateness, earnestness and a meticulous selection of words. He speaks without notes, says ''If you don't get any new thoughts while on your feet you'd better sit down." An adroit phrase maker, he knows the dramatic value of repetition. It was Borah who said of Mexico: "God made us neighbors; let justice make us friends." Daniel Webster is his political hero, Ralph Waldo Emerson his philosophic guide, Honore Balzac his chief source of literary amusement. Once in puritanical disgust he burned a whole set of Frank...
Walter Edwin Frew, president of Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co., will be on the directorate of the new Manhattan bank and last week he was also elected a director of Ingersoll-Rand Co., maker of building and mining machines...
...films that will be shown in December are "The Art of Spinning and Weaving" and "The Medal Maker". The first was taken in the Colonial Rooms of the Museum and under the exact supervision of the Museum curators. The producers claim that it sets a new standard of authenticity both in colonial backgrounds and in picturization of the crafts of spinning and weaving. "The Medal Maker" was made especially for the American Numismatic Society and demonstrates the making of medals and coins as done by Laura Gardin Fraser, maker of the official government medals of Lindbergh and Byrd...
...chairman of the bank. His election was no surprise, leaves the three principal offices of Continental Illinois filled by old Continental men rather than Illinois Merchant executives.* Before the merger, Continental was considered an aggressively expanding bank, Illinois Merchants conservative, old-school. Banker Leavell is a quick friend-maker, "Jim" to acquaintances great and small. He lives in Lake Forest, commutes on the famed club car Deerpath with many another tycoon. He plays golf about once a year, likes riding, poker...
...TIME, Oct. 6) they were widely discounted as partisan campaign politics. When last fortnight Attorney General Mitchell, upon investigation, pronounced them "without merit or substance," they were left discredited in the Washington gutter for the Senate to nose into. But now, with President Hoover angrily denouncing them and their maker, they were suddenly brought back into sharp public focus...