Word: nash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judges were Vincent McD. Barnett, Jr., instructor in Government, and Henry Nash Smith, Fellow in American History. Stanley O. Beren '41, chairman of the Inter-House Debating Council, presided...
Founded by England's famous dandy and fashion arbiter, Richard ("Beau") Nash, the Pump Room Orchestra (now conducted by handsome Maurice Miles) has given concerts in Bath's Pump Room for 234 uninterrupted years. Last week word leaked out that the famous Pump Room Orchestra was to be disbanded. Reason: for its size, Bath's orchestra had set a new record in box-office flops. This year's expected deficit...
...sold 4% more cars in 1937 than in 1936.) G. M.'s President William S. Knudsen dropped from $459,878 to $247,210. Ford Motor Co. paid Chairman Henry Ford nothing, President Edsel Ford $146,056, Vice President Peter Martin $171,465, Superintendent Charles E. Sorensen $166,071. Nash-Kelvinator Corp. paid its President George Walter Mason $233,957; Chrysler Corp.'s Chairman Walter P. Chrysler drew...
Unable to do anything about the office, the President last week did the next best thing by picking an incumbent to his taste. To replace Acting Comptroller Richard Nash Elliott, an Indiana Republican almost as snappish as Mr. McCarl, Mr. Roosevelt bestowed a full appointment on jovial, jowly Democrat Frederick Herbert Brown of New Hampshire, who lost his Senate seat last November. Now 59, he will receive $10,000 a year until...
Ford, General Motors and Chrysler today control 90% of the U. S. car market. Studebaker, Packard, Nash, Hudson and the few other remaining independents survive on 9% of the dwindling medium-price field. Since Studebaker emerged from 776 in 1935, Messrs. Hoffman and Vance, now president and chairman respectively, have been pondering this squeeze (on sales of 52,000 medium-priced cars in 1938 they lost $1,700,000). They decided the public would not buy any car smaller or less powerful than Ford, Chevrolet or Plymouth (vide the Austin and Willys). They knew they could not compete with...