Word: metting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp.. was Shearer's prize exhibit. Quizzed about Shearer on the stand last month, Mr. Schwab had said: "So far as I know I never saw him. ... I never heard of it [Shearer's employment by Bethlehem]." Now Shearer said: "I have met Mr. Schwab on a number of occasions. 'The Star of Bethlehem' himself was the first to suggest that his company might employ me." He said he had conversed with Mr. Schwab in November 1926, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Manhattan...
...Dublin, famed statistician of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. "That was the most outrageous talk I ever heard. Mr. Hoffman's doctrine is at the bottom of our troubles. I have known that automobile manufacturers had such thought in their hearts, but this is the first time I ever met one who dared to preach such a theory. There is no earthly reason for speed higher than 35 miles an hour. . . ." The National Safety Council, before whose Chicago meeting the two men spoke, could not of course change their points of view; could only deplore that...
...reduced the price of Camels from the long established rate of $6.40 a 1,000 to $6. Quick to follow were Liggett & Myers with Chesterfields and Piedmonts, and the American Tobacco Co. with Lucky Strikes. The Lorillard To bacco Co., faced with the heavy expense of introducing Old Golds met the reduction only partially, cutting its price to $6.10. During the intervening months the costs of the feud were heavy and many a rumor spread that an agreement for its termination had been reached. Last week from the Winston-Salem (N. C.) offices of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco...
Some of These Days", which Miss Tucker made for the Columbia firm some time ago, has been a best seller, and is still in some demand around Harvard Square. Her other similar records have met with responsive receptions at the time of issue...
With only two lettermen returning, the University fencing team faces an unusually difficult schedule this winter. Captain D. I. Modell '30, who met with considerable success in the New England Intercollegiate Tournament last year, who graduated last June leaves a place hard to fill...