Word: nash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the Sanitary District's scandalously extravagant era (1926-28); of heart disease; at Williams Bay, Wis. After his trial in February 1932, he had said: "I'll never live to go to jail." Last week the Chicago Hearstpapers revealed that Patrick-Nash, Cook County Democratic boss, whose contracting firm did a big business with the Sanitary District, was forced to settle a Federal tax claim on unreported income...
...outrageous prices. With his indictment quashed, Engineer Kelly was technically outside this Chicago scandal. But its shadow was enough to bar him from serious consideration as a candidate for high elective office. In 1931 "Tony" Cermak was overwhelmingly nominated for Mayor. At Cermak's death old Boss Pat Nash who succeeded him as Democratic National Committeeman wanted to be Mayor. Young, aggressive State's Attorney Thomas Courtney backed Corporation Counsel William H. Sexton, chief Cermak adviser, for the job. They compromised on Ed Kelly. As soon as the new Mayor was installed in City Hall, the old Sanitary...
Last week the following was news: ¶ Daniel Crandall Green, onetime vice president of Electric Bond & Share Co., became president of Middle West Utilities Co. Edward Nash Hurley and Charles Alexander McCulloch. receivers mopping up the late Insull empire, picked him to operate the great Middle West satrapy, covering 32 States, once ruled by Martin Insull. who is now boarding in Canada...
Resigned. Philip Curtis Nash, 42, executive director of the League of Nations Association; to become president of Ohio's University of Toledo...
...draw keymen from the ranks of economists, businessmen, labor leaders to make up advisory boards. The Industrial Advisory Board appointed by Secretary Roper included: General Motors President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; Chairman Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric President Gerard Swope; Chairman Edward Nash Hurley of Chicago's Hurley Machine Co.; Louis Kirstein, vice president of Filene's, Boston department store; Austin Finch, president of Thomasville (N. C.) Chair Co., chairman of the Southern Manufacturer's Association's committee already at work in connection with the recovery...