Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general manager. Mr. Buick left the company he had founded. In the later growth of the Buick Motor Car Co. and in the development of General Motors, he took no part. He left the company with a block of stock which would soon have made him an exceedingly rich man. But David Buick seemed to have no affinity for money. He could not make it himself and he was not content to let abler business men make...
...information desk. He was a thin, hunched little old man, who peered at questioners through heavy glasses...
...directors were Dr. William M. Burton, onetime President of Standard of Indiana; Melvin A. Traylor, president of Chicago's First National Bank; Thomas S. Cook and Dr. Gentry S. Cash. President Edward G. Seubert, a Stewart man, retained his position. Indeed, his functions were increased, since no Board Chairman was elected to succeed Col. Stewart...
There were two arresting works by a man named O. (for Otto) Soglow. One was a black and white study of a city street at nightfall. The casual silhouettes were expressive of simple, mundane destinies. Paris was an oil painting of a lugubrious couple and a stein of beer. The malty futility of a sidewalk cafe existence is a familiar subject, but Satirist Soglow had handled it with distinction...
...Charles L. O'Donnell, of Notre Dame: "The long and honorable public career of Ex-Governor Smith, as well as the fine example of his private family life, are known and admired by the entire American people. These public and private virtues are inseparable from the man's sterling Catholicity." The formal reason for the award was Mr. Smith's having achieved "such discinction in his field of special endeavor as to reflect glory upon the Catholic faith." Actress Margaret Anglin received the medal for 1927; Edward N. Hurley for 1926. Other Laetare medallists: Patrick V. Hickey...