Word: metcalfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have grown by 97% to 1967's $7.3 billion, while profits have more than doubled to $384 million. It has long since outstripped its old rival Montgomery Ward (1967 sales: $1.9 billion), is approached only by aggressive J. C. Penney Co. ($2.7 billion). Last week Sears Chairman Gordon Metcalf, 60, reported first-quarter 1968 gross sales of $1.9 billion, a 13.9% rise over last year's first three months. Says Metcalf: "Nothing that I can see will change our direction...
...summer of 1939, a few short weeks before Hitler's invasion of Poland, Harvard historian William L. Langer was preparing to leave for a year's study in Mexico and Central America when he was contacted by the University Librarian, Keyes DeWitt Metcalf. Metcalf was anxious to purchase for Harvard the personal papers of a Russian exile then living in Mexico, and he asked Langer to represent Harvard in the negotiations...
...certainly nothing even remotely similar to the Trotsky papers. During the twenties and thirties Archibald Carey Coolidge, then director of the Harvard libraries, bought for the University a substantial number of books from Russia which were put on sale by the Bolshevik government in order to raise foreign currency. Metcalf, who took over Coolidge's job in 1937, had previously been with the New York Public Library--which had the best useable collection of Russian material in the United States at that time. But Metcalf's experience in New York and the tradition of Coolidge are hardly enough to explain...
During that summer, NAACP leader George Metcalf was injured in a bombing. At once the community was aroused. Mississippi's Freedom Democratic Party competed with the NAACP to organize Negroes for protection. The film records the conflicting emotions of fear, anger, and suspicion that followed...
...turned out, Johnson probably spared his prestige a painful blow by retreating to Texas instead of going out politicking. Save for Montana, where Senator Lee Metcalf won the only major race, Democrats suffered serious defeats in every state that the President had planned to visit. Even in Texas, Republican Senator John Tower crushed Democrat Waggoner Carr. According to a gag making the Washington rounds. "Lyndon...