Word: mclntosh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jacob Baur died in 1912, left his 55% interest to his wife and daughter. In 1926 they realized $3,000,000 by selling out to a banking group. President then and chairman now is a blue-eyed, bulb-nosed Iowa Scot named Walter Kenneth Mclntosh who has been in the company since 1902. Married but childless, he commutes from suburban Oak Park, draws a salary of $27,000. '"Liquid" employes call him "Mr. Mac." Under Mr. Mac, "Liquid" came through Depression with flying colors, lost money only in 1932. In 1930, it made $1,786,000 on sales...
...with pride when they heard that one of their sex had been elected to be Congregationalist Babson's opposite number in South Africa. Though no minister, Emilie Solomon of Capetown was made the first woman chairman of the Congregational Union of South Africa. Two female ministers, Rev. Euphemia Mclntosh and Rev. Lilian Dower, assisted at the induction ceremonies and robed Chairman Solomon in a gown contributed by the Women's Federation of the Church. Miss Solomon signed her name in a Bible in which were the signatures of all her predecessors including her father, who held the post...
...Eagle. Publicity-wise, that official hunted down a tall, husky Amerindian, persuaded him to exchange his grey business suit for a red blanket and a headdress of blue-&-white feathers. To newshawks, Acee Blue Eagle explained that he was not only a great-grandson of famed Creek Chief William Mclntosh but newly elected head of the art department at Bacone College near Muskogee, Okla. A first-rate tribal artist. Blue Eagle won fourth place in the 1932 Olympic exhibition for his water colors and drawings of Indian athletes. When his well-to-do family lost its money he went...
...Pearsonites." T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson, onetime Congressman from Mississippi whom Senator Pat Harrison, not entirely unselfishly, rescued from political limbo with a Federal judgeship in the Islands, had previously distinguished himself by proceeding in the face of bitter opposition to prosecute a quadroon PWA clerk named Mclntosh for pilfering $38.40 worth of Government cement and lumber. Last week it developed that fierce discord had also arisen between Judge Wilson and the Pearson Administration over disposition of the case of Mrs. Helen Dortch Longstreet. relict of famed Confederate General James Longstreet.* Widow Longstreet had had her driver's license...
...lost his seat in the House by running, unsuccessfully, for the Senate. Negro-wise Judge Wilson soon roused the Islanders' fury against Governor Pearson to fever pitch. Looming up as a likely successor if Pearson could be dislodged, he made national news by pouncing on poor Quadroon Mclntosh. Acting as combined prosecutor, jury & judge, Judge T. Webber Wilson denounced the pilferer as "a Judas and Benedict Arnold to your country," found him guilty, sentenced him to pay a $200 fine...