Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less pleased were Mr. Cover and his boss, President Donald Wills Douglas, with the sales potentialities of DC-5's big, four-motored brother DC-4, now completed at a reputed development cost...
...good reason why politically-wise Harry Hopkins made no specific suggestions in his speech was explained by the Wall Street Journal: "Various New Deal officials and agencies had squared away for an open fight on Mr. Hopkins if he stuck a critical finger publicly into their particular affairs and the Secretary was content ... to deal in generalities . . . and keep specific suggestions in reserve...
...business advice, ex-Social Worker Hopkins relies on President William Loren Batt of SKF Industries, Inc., Treasurer Beardsley Ruml of R. H. Macy & Co. and Chairman W. Averell Harriman of Union Pacific R. R. Dynamic Mr. Batt is an expert on scientific management; jovial Mr. Ruml used to be dean of the social sciences at the University of Chicago; swank Mr. Harriman, long interested in the New Deal, chairmans the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council. Last week he flew to Des Moines from his Union Pacific's Sun Valley playground, on Harry Hopkins' advice...
...would be hard to find three more dissimilar business associates than Bror Dahlberg, Walter S. Mack Jr. and Wallace Groves. Mr. Dahlberg is a smoothfaced, vigorous Swede of 58 who collects Napoleonana, has an ornate office almost as big as Hitler's, runs his business with cosmic scope. Mr. Mack is a relaxed Harvardman with intense blue eyes and nonchalance about money; he likes to consider himself a sort of clinicist for big business. Mr. Groves is a bald, shy Southerner whose financial talents have earned him several million dollars, a reputation as "silent man of Wall Street...
...instead of diversifying Celotex's product, he took a flier in sugar, bought up swamps and plantations in Florida and Louisiana. Depression took the Florida properties and in 1932 Mr. Dahlberg's Celotex went into receivership. At this point, looking far from Napoleonic, Bror Dahlberg met quiet Wallace Groves...