Word: norman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier Edouard Herriot can see the brighter side of things more easily than men as thin as Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England...
...fire broken out one day last week in Younkers Department Store, biggest and best known in Des Moines, Iowa, or if an old lady had dropped dead in an elevator, the job of quieting people and running things would have fallen not to Younkers' President Norman Wilchinski but to a high-school student named James Mills. If all the salesgirls had struck, the matter would have been in the hands not of Superintendent A. E. Fletcher but of Student John Haydon. As it was, the biggest problem for Student Mills was whether or not to let Younkers' employes...
...organization, business English, art and journalism. Every high school nominated students for executive positions, at $2 for the day. Winners were drawn by lot. Younkers took 143 students. Sears, Roebuck 25, The Utica (clothing) 23, Montgomery Ward 10, The Globe (department store) 9, Wolf's (ladies') 8, Norman Cassiday (ladies') 6, Kresge's 6, Herman Kucharo (men's) 4, Sprankel's (men's) 4, Carley's (ladies') 4, J. C. Penney (department store) 3, Woolworth's and E. Kresge's each 2. At the news desk...
...Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, will speak at the Trement Temple in Boston tonight...
Died. James (";Jimmy") De Forest, 68, trainer of boxers; of general complications; in Long Branch. N. J. An unnoted featherweight boxer, he trained Leach Cross, Frankie Burns, Joe Shevlin. Charlie White. Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), "Pal" Moore, Ted ("Kid") Lewis, Jack Dempsey, Luis Angel Firpo. Little Trainer De Forest was the model for all trainers: capable of savage scorn, furious calm and a disarming mildness in handling fighters. Describing a knockout blow, he once said. "It just makes you dumb and useless and sort of discouraged. You don't feel...