Word: parkinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...democracy is their favorite, though only a brand new reader of novels would find anything new on the subject. In the worst of them, Charles Francis Stocking's Out of the Dust (Maestro, Chicago, $2.75), an American in Germany huffs & puffs through an interminable, blowhard melodrama. Frances Parkinson Keyes's The Great Tradition (Messner, $2.50) pictures in drawing room prose the democratic gropings of a German-U. S. aristocrat in Germany and revolutionary Spain. A cut above them is W. Townend's Rescue of Captain Leggatt (Morrow, $2.50), naively melodramatizing the enmity and brotherly reconciliation...
...President Edward D. Duffield, Prudential Insurance Co. of America; Chairman Frederick H. Ecker, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; President John M. Franklin, International Mercantile Marine Co.; President Robert M. Hanes, Wachovia Bank & Trust Co.; President Robert Wood Johnson, Johnson & Johnson; President Sydney G. McAllister,International Harvester Co.; President Thomas I. Parkinson, Equitable Life Assurance Society; Chairman William C. Potter, Guaranty Trust Co.; Chairman S. Clay Williams, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.; Chairman Clarence M. Woolley, American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp.; Chairman Owen D. Young, General Electric...
Since modern financing of Culture is an elaborate business, President Gates appointed as general drive chairman Philadelphia Banker Joseph Wayne Jr., as national alumni committee head Equitable Life's President Thomas Ignatius Parkinson. Then he hired the John Price Jones money-raising organization, which started a year ago approaching Penn's 55.000 alumni. By this week, when the campaign formally opened, $1,000,000 of the $12,500,000 had already been raised. To take three years, the drive is timed to culminate in the University's bicentennial celebration...
CAPITAL KALEIDOSCOPE-Frances Parkinson Keyes-Harper...
...Isador Lubin, economist, at present U.S.Commissioner of Labor Statistics; Frank W. Pierce, exeutive assistant to Walter Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey; Robert J. Watt, secretary of the Massachusetts Federation of Labor; Ex-Governor Winant, head of the Social Security Board; and Royal Parkinson, manager of personnel activities of the American Optical Company...