Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In a big office high above Chicago's North Wells Street, a picture of Jesus Christ hangs on the wall, alongside photographs of two tall businessmen: Herbert and Lewis Wells. The picture display is intended as something more than simple decoration. The two businessmen, father and son, are the...
Organization, which takes about a week. Small group meetings indoctrinate volunteer canvassers with one key Wells principle: they must make their own pledges public, "as pace setters." "So many churches have made money a hush-hush affair," says a Wells representative. "They're nuts . . . You wouldn't ask...
A few hours later (by similar pre-arrangement). Precondition No. 2 was also met. From U.S. Ambassador C. Douglas Dillon came the text of the U.S. pledge to keep troops on the Continent so long as the threat to Western Europe continues (see box).
The American and British pledges did not materially add to what the two governments had long made plain they intended to do. But the British pledge of actual participation in the European Army's working was designed to reassure the many Frenchmen who fear that otherwise, the efficient Germans...
When Adman Ward Canaday bought control of Willys auto company in 1936, he resolved never again to have a strike such as the one that cost Willys $25 million and all but wrecked the company 20 years before. Canaday's method was simple. He promised to pay better wages...