Word: prentiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tougher the pressure gets, the better Chester Bowles seems to like it. A once-thwarted public servant and social thinker who has just come into his own, he loves his job. Where onetime Price Boss Leon Henderson let the heat frazzle his temper, where onetime Price Boss Prentiss Brown simply got out as fast as he could, Chester Bowles plows ahead with unconcealed pleasure, his big jaw jutting forward like the prow of one of the boats he used to sail in races to Bermuda...
...People talk about the New York, the Boston, and the Philadelphia. Now they will talk about the New York, the Boston, the Philadelphia and the Cleveland." Thus top success was in sight for the orchestra founded 27 years ago by oil-&-steel Tycoon John L. Severance and Mrs. Adella Prentiss Hughes, indefatigable crusader for music in Cleveland...
Chandler argued that syrup is not sugar, thus does not come under rationing. This, it said, was what it had been advised by the law firm of onetime OPA Boss Prentiss M. Brown. OPA brushed this argument aside. It held that cane syrup cannot be used commercially without being purified and crystallized-and crystallized syrup is sugar. The Court agreed, cut off Chandler's syrup supply by a preliminary injunction. Armed with this, OPA is now investigating some 50 refineries in Louisiana, which supplies some 60% of U.S. sugar, and hopes to force syrup makers back to making sugar...
...Class of 1946: Gordon Prentiss Baird, Alvan Samuel Berner, Joseph Jay Bernstein, William Aloysius Cahill, Ashley Hale Carter, William Arthur Cawley, Marvin Arthur Collier, Panaghioti Constantin Cotzias, Thomas Richard Drew, Jr., Joseph Austin Erickson, Jr., Robert Louis Feinberg, John Gilman Foster, Robert John Gabler, John Richard Gilman, Jr., Leon Arnold Green, John Joseph Hall, Lee Montgomery Hutchins, 2nd, John Dunster Kettelle, Jr., Robert William Macnamara, Herbert Anthony Mehlhorn, Adams Hoffman Nickerson, Leon Reznick, Norman Alan Wilson...
...hope that the Edison market price would bounce up, A.L. & T. strategists looked around for a sound citizen to head the Edison setup. Their eye fell on tough, diplomatic Prentiss M. Brown, no stranger to Michigan public utilities. Before election to Congress in 1932, he spent seven years as counsel for northern Michigan's Edison Sault Electric...