Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friction in North Africa, Salvemini declared. "For the time being I don't think the situation will grow dangerous. I suspect that all these outcries which are being made about Tunis, the Suez Canal, and Djibouti is meant not as much to disturb the French as to please Mr. Chamberlain...
When Lincoln Steffens plucked him out of Harvard in the '10's, Walter Lippmann was a progressive, so much so that his first book, "A Preface to Politics," identified him with Steffens himself. Since the War, it would seem, from the convolutions of Mr. Lippmann's mind, that he has been attacked by that disease so common among political commentators and critics of the American scene, the disease of terminology. His eyes, searching for a quiet and secure resting place, have seized upon communism, pacifism, fascism and turned them into the little pink elephants which many of his indulgent readers...
...wholesale business was run by Executive Vice President Charles F. Michaels,* whose San Francisco drug house had been absorbed by McKesson & Robbins in 1928. Mr. Michaels convinced Mr. Catchings that everything was all right in the wholesale divisions, suggested he look into the manufacturing and crude-drug departments, which Coster ran at Bridgeport, Conn. Mr. Catchings spent three months trying "gently" to get some figures out of Coster, finally told him "it was about time" he produced the books...
Coster promptly proposed to Mr. Michaels that they fire Mr. Catchings and take joint control of the company. When Mr. Catchings heard about this he wrote to all the directors, urging them to come to Manhattan before the stockholders' meeting in April 1934, and support his recommendation that "there is no further place in the McKesson & Robbins organization for F. Donald Coster...
When Coster heard about this he opened campaign headquarters in Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, hired a lawyer, and began whispering in directors' ears, "setting one man against another." Everything was set for open battle when Mr. Catchings saw that a majority of directors sided with Coster, led by representatives of the banking interests that had helped him finance the company. Rather than start a public row to the detriment of the company's reputation, Mr. Catchings issued a report and resigned. Said he last week: "I told them, but they wouldn't accept it, that Mr...