Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finish the plugging job he began last November by plugging in the shrewd conservative Earl of Perth as "general supervisor" of the Department, naming him "director-general designate" of a Ministry of Information into which the Publicity Department would be converted if war came. Groundwork for this wartime Ministry, Mr. Chamberlain revealed, was being laid by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare (Hoare-Laval Deal...
CURRENT & CHOICE Young Mr. Lincoln (Henry Fonda, Marjorie Weaver, Donald Meek; TIME, June 12). Stolen Life (Elisabeth Bergner, Michael Redgrave; TIME, June 5). The Mikado (Kenny Baker, Jean Colin, Martyn Green; TIME, June 5). Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Robert Donat, Greer Garson; TIME...
...often wholesaled his suits and overcoats in trade for pig iron and salt. After his three sons got into the company it really grew. Son Charles Lehman (who died in 1936), "the merry one," became president. Son Henry Centennial (who died in 1934), "the quiet one," became secretary-treasurer. "Mr. N. G."-"the grave one"-became chairman of the board. "Mr. N. G." in 1903 hit on the profitable idea of selling Richman Bros. $22.50 suits direct to wearer. Today the company operates 62 stores in 57 cities, keeps a mailing list of 1,000,000 purchasers of Richman suits...
...four years in the White House the U. S.'s greatest ex-Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, used to announce at regular intervals that business was getting better. Not yet quite so famous are the announcements of another H. H., Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, business-appeaser emeritus. Mr. Hopkins last week issued another H. H. announcement to spread a little recovery cheer, noting an end-of-May "pickup in activity": increases in auto sales and in post-strike coal activity...
...years ago, Aaron Meier Frank of Portland, Ore. stopped to watch a fireman hustling up a ladder with a steaming pot of coffee for his water-soaked comrades in the upper floors. That sight gave Aaron Meier Frank an idea. He would give Portland an elaborately equipped "disaster wagon." Mr. Frank, a lively sportsman of 48 and benevolent scion of oldtime Portland merchants, is president of Portland's huge Meier & Frank department store...