Word: nash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...separated; he and his mother took her maiden name. After 18 years' judgeship in Cook County Probate Court, he ran for Governor in 1932, sponsored by the late Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak, whose subsequent assassination left Horner politically free. Governor ever since, he agreed with the Kelly-Nash machine only on Term III. A bachelor, he found time to become an authority on Lincoln...
...Geographic Influences in the Development of the United States," Mrs. Helen Goss Thomas, Wellesley College, Saturdays, 2 to 4 P. M., Nash Lecture Room, Botanical Museum, Oxford street, Cambridge...
Somerset House, where wills going back to 1382-including those of Shakespeare, Nelson, Gladstone-are filed, lost its lovely staircase. John Nash's nobly curving Regent Street was ripped by a time bomb. A German squadron boasted it had toasted victory in champagne in the sky, and then dropped the empty bottles on the palace which was bought from the Duke of Buckingham by one of Britain's German Kings, George III. Rougher ammunition blasted the palace five times, and tore at the spot where millions have watched the changing of the guard. Hit was the paneled house...
...Nash, the No. 7 (in 1940 sales) producer, gave a preview of its big, bullet-shaped, roomy Ambassador 600. Of advance design (one-piece body and chassis), it will compete in the low-price range with Chevrolet, Ford and Plymouth, who make more than 50% of U. S. sales. Fat, fast-talking Nash Chief, George Walter Mason blandly predicted a 100% sales jump, backed his hopes with $7,000,000 in development and plant expansion...
...model year ahead a volume of business as good as that in the model year just concluded." Translation: "Things don't look so hot." Ward's reasons: lower anticipated public buying because of lower profits, higher taxes, reduced auto exports, conscription, higher car prices (an exception: Nash, which lowered prices on expectations of larger output), general uncertainty...