Word: maytag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Jones clique learned he wanted to be a prize fighter they formed a syndicate to back him: 22 of them, including Jones, Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Actor Frank Crumit, Socialite Tommy Tailer, Stockbroker Clifford Roberts, L. B. Maytag (washing machines), Bartlett Arkell (BeechNut Co.), Aired Severin Bourne (Singer sewing machines) and many another gold-spooned golfer. To manage their waif, they got Chick Wergeles, a Broadway press agent...
...even by implication, with isolationists and Nazi propagandists. It is most unjust in the present case in view of the superhuman efforts of the organization which I head to perform its share of the defense job. In tne December issue of The American Magazine, Donald M. Nelson lists The Maytag Company's defense program among his case histories of "magnificently inspiring voluntary cooperation...
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...TIME regrets having associated the Maytags (washing machines) with isolationists by implication. TIME drew a wrong inference from the fact that Isolationists Eggleston, Feagin and Stewart (of Scribner's Commentator and The Herald] were entertained at a, big picnic on the Maytag estate. But no Maytag was present, the Maytag house was closed, and no Maytag was aware of the political views of the guests. Hostess was a Mrs. Vickers, widow of a Lake Geneva dentist...