Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchester, England last June a matronly market woman named Mary Agnes Smith, walking with her grandchild, paused at a crosswalk to let motor traffic go by. A lorry owned by Hall & Pickles rumbled from one direction, the motor car of a Mr. Cunliffe of Droylsden purred from the other. Right before Mrs. Smith's horrified eyes they crashed. Mrs. Smith screamed to her grandchild to run, then collapsed. She says she has not felt right since...
Last week the periwigged British bar viewed with interest the unprecedented decision reached in the Manchester Assizes in the case of Smith v. Hall & Pickles. For her fright, Mrs. Smith won ?2,500, assessed against Hall & Pickles and Mr. Cunliffe of Droylsden, since both were found equally responsible for the motor crash. Unless the decision is upset on appeal, the future may well see frightened British bystanders by the hundreds seeking nerve balm after every motor bump in Britain...
Last week Mr. Charles Harding Babb of Glendale, Calif., who is the world's busiest jobber in new and used sport, military and transport planes, decided to go into the heavy freight plane production business. That nobody ever had done so before was no deterrent to Charlie Babb...
...young man who believes in Horace Greeley's famed maxim is balding Banker Guy C. Myers of No. 35 Wall Street. For several years Mr. Myers has been going West with profit. Last week he turned a neat profit in Nebraska...
...seasoned promoter who helped put together Montana Power Co., Banker Myers was discovered by James Delmage Ross when that alert public utilitarian was trying to raise money for the municipal system he managed in Seattle. After Mr. Ross was turned down by PWA and cold-shouldered by bigtime financiers, Mr. Myers raised $22,500,000 for him. When Mr. Ross went on to SEC, and Los Angeles started looking around for $47,000,000 for a municipal utility system, he put Mr. Myers in the way of that job. Few months before leaving SEC to administer Washington's Bonneville...