Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sharply at 8:45 o'clock each workday morning the officers of the world's largest hat factory sit down at a worn, carved oak round table, go over the morning mail addressed "John B. Stetson Co., Philadelphia, Pa.", and discuss company matters. Since last June when Stetson's third president, George V. MacKinnon died, the president's chair has been vacant. This week it was occupied. Fourth head of the 74-year-old Stetson business was robust, grey-haired, 43-year-old George L. Russell Jr., former vice president and treasurer. After a miserable...
...although he supported Mr. Chamberlain's appeasement policy last year, it was Mr. Hudson who later dramatically warned Germany that unless the Reich gave up its trading methods, Britain would "fight and beat" Germany at her own game. Like Dr. Wohlthat, he too got his wife from Philadelphia...
...Committee more closely than ever this year. Among the tennis giants he has harassed into submission are Jack Crawford, Adrian Quist and Jack Bromwich, the three formidable Australians who (unless they lose the Interzone final) will face the U. S. team in the Davis Cup challenge round at Philadelphia on September...
...even Paris, taken at first hand, soon lost its sheen. Henry and his devoted second wife (beauteous Elsie Marie Whelen of Philadelphia) moved again, this time to the idyllic seclusion of an 8th-Century fortress-monastery at La Napoule, on the shores of the Mediterranean. There they set about to create their Never-Never Land. Self-conscious Aristocrat Clews carefully restored the chateau and gardens, stocked the whole place with white birds and animals (to his white pigeons he had tiny flutes fastened, which whistled musically as they flew), worked when he felt like it at sculpture, writing, painting...
...Davis was clad in drawers when he was nabbed by police in Philadelphia last winter in a room he shared with Actress Hope Dare...