Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Representative Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth, 40, of the 14th Massachusetts Congressional District; and Florence Booth, 28, president of the Junior League of Louisville, Ky.; in Manhattan. Harvard athlete, Congressman Wigglesworth was chief assistant (1924-27) to Agent General Seymour Parker Gilbert, whose wife Louise Todd is also Louisville-born...
...James's machine, ready for sale last week, is an endless conveyor set on end. The motorist runs his car into a cage. Gates shut and electricity raises the cage notch by notch until another cage reaches the street level. The present parker holds 24 cars in a double stack reaching, with motors and hoisting wheels, 100 ft. high. Ground space is 16 x 24 ft., approximately the size of a double garage...
When a motorist wants his car back he turns a key, presses a button or drops a coin, according to the parker's electric control arrangement. Thereupon the cage containing his car drops to street level, the car rolls out, much like a "hot dog" rolling out of a roasting machine in a roadside rotisserie...
...surround himself with able, loyal subordinates. For his board of trustees he chose 15 men he knew well, all Southerners but one. Board president and largest in calibre is George Garland Allen, president of Duke Power Co., vice board-chairman of British-American Tobacco Co. Treasurer is W. C. Parker, long a member of Duke Power Co. Among other Duke trustees are: William Robertson Perkins, counsel for the Duke brothers and for many a power and tobacco company; William States Lee, chief engineer of Duke Power Co., who first aided James Buchanan Duke in buying up North Carolina power sites...
Such questions had often occurred to Editor Frank Parker Stockbridge of the trade magazine The American Press. A good reporter as well as a good editor, Editor Stockbridge submitted his questions to Editor Brisbane, printed questions and answers (copyrighted by Mr. Brisbane) last week. Most significant were Editor Brisbane's replies concerning the influence of his father, Albert Brisbane, who in the 1830's and 1840's was the principal disciple in the U. S. of the French Sociologist (François) Charles Marie Fourier...