Word: managerships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty years ago able Will Keith Kellogg quit the business managership of his brother Dr. John Harvey's Michigan Sanitarium and Benevolent Association in Battle Creek, founded the Sanitas Nut Food Do., Ltd., to manufacture the health foods the doctor fed his patients. His little firm, now the Kellogg Company, became the No. 1 U. S. packaged cereal maker, which has factories on three continents and does upwards of $30,000,000 business every year. In all that time gloomy, barrel-tested, bald Will Keith has kept a mighty grip on his firm's affairs. When he appointed...
With Cincinnati as their model, several American cities have already adopted the city managership. In each case it has meant increased service for the citizens; particularly it has lowered tax rates. In the green land of Eire cities like Dublin, Cork, and Limerick have profited by this form of government. With everything in its favor, Cambridge voters should give careful, consideration to the referendum which now, by the grace of the Plan E Committee, will be placed upon the November ballot. They should see that a city manager is a better way of getting more for their money...
Biggest news of the beginning of the new season was the appointment of veteran Player Frank ("King") Clancy to manage the Montreal Maroons, and the accession of William J. ("Bill") Stewart, 42, National League baseball umpire and National League hockey referee, to managership of Major Frederic Mclaughlin's Chicago Blackhawks. Bill Stewart, square-set, affable and bald, preens himself on being one of the least vilified umpires in baseball. He has, however, been mixed up in some fair-to-middling hockey brawls, one of which nearly cost him his arm. While coaching hockey at Milton Academy a decade...
...sellout, and the present 1,700,000 circulation came in generous leaps & bounds as the monthly became a fortnightly. But Look did not decide to accept advertising until three months ago when the Brothers Cowles took Ned Doyle, a wiry, 34-year-old Hibernian, from the eastern advertising managership of Cosmopolitan. Mr. Doyle was given 13 solicitors and sent to sell space, warned not to accept hard liquor, beer or objectionable patent medicine...
Handsome, bemustached Democrat McWilliams found himself pitted against the most popular Mayor Cleveland has elected since city managership was abandoned in 1929. Son of a professor of civil engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harold Burton migrated to Cleveland fresh from Harvard Law School, started practicing in 1912. He rode into the City Hall as a reform candidate in 1935. Now chunky, athletic and 49, Mayor Burton arrives at City Hall each morning at 8:30, works twelve hours a day, takes pride in his clean-up of the Cleveland police force, and although a Republican, claims credit for wangling...