Word: nights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late Wednesday night last week Franklin Roosevelt called up members of his Cabinet to tell them that he had just received a message from Berlin so important that the usual Friday Cabinet meeting would have to be advanced...
...been rah-rahing since 1923, but has had to play frequent second fiddle to such fraternity-row favorites as Fred Waring, Kay Kyser. But this season, sponsored by Turns, a carminative, Horace Heidt's Musical Knights went out in front with a burp. During Turns' Tuesday night half hour, a wheel of fortune is ceremoniously spun several times, eventually coming to rest on a telephone number somewhere in the U. S. A call is put in for the unnamed subscriber. The band plays on, but when the phone is answered, Announcer Ben Grauer shouts "Stop, stop, Horace!" When...
...months later Dodge stockholders had assented to the deal and the contract was signed. Next morning Broker Dillon dropped in to see Motorman Chrysler at his office on Madison Avenue to find out when Chrysler would begin operating Dodge. "Hell, Clarence," replied Walter, "our boys moved in last night...
Boss of the boys that moved in that night (carrying canvas signs: CHRYSLER CORPORATION, DODGE DIVISION) was the husky, jut-jawed Chrysler general manager whom Walter Chrysler described to his biographer, Boyden Sparkes, as "a great production man." That night at Detroit "K. T." had stayed close to the phone and when Walter Chrysler called from New York ("We've bought the Dodge-put up your signs") he knew what to do. Within a year he was president of Dodge and his brilliant production methods, stemming from the machine-shop where he had worked as a horny-handed mechanic...
...Zeder, Joe Fields. Their fingers were on the controls of every part of Chrysler Corp.'s complicated mechanism. And in the president's paneled office on the fifth floor of the Highland Park plant sat Kaufman Thuma Keller, the same "K. T." who had made the night foray on the Dodge plant eleven years...