Word: pritchard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. took the lead in his industry by announcing that prices of General Motors' entire 1934 line would be upped from 10% to 15% because of rising costs of labor and materials under the NRA automobile code. Of equal interest to motorists was his announcement that all GM's new models would feature independent front wheel suspension, which has been used sparingly in Europe for several years. Said Motorman Sloan...
...hooks used by gymnasts when Tammany Hall had occupied the building were suspended from the ceiling. A tortuous circular staircase led to the room, up & down which ambitious young reporters used to trudge: Arthur Brisbane, Samuel Hopkins Adams, David Graham Phillips, Edwin C. Hill, Will and Wallace Irwin, Walter Pritchard Eaton. It was the old city room of the New York...
...Commerce. Agriculture, Labor; Attorney General. Director of the Budget, Federal Trade Commissioner Chairman. These in turn began last week to draw keymen from the ranks of economists, businessmen, labor leaders to make up advisory boards. The Industrial Advisory Board appointed by Secretary Roper included: General Motors President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; Chairman Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric President Gerard Swope; Chairman Edward Nash Hurley of Chicago's Hurley Machine Co.; Louis Kirstein, vice president of Filene's, Boston department store; Austin Finch, president of Thomasville (N. C.) Chair Co., chairman...
Another article which takes its cue from this side of the Charles is "College and the Poor Boy Is the Door Closing?" by R. T. Sharpe, secretary of Student Employment at Harvard. Probably the best essay is "A Squire's Complaint," by Walter Pritchard Eaton, the dramatic critic. Mr. Eaton raises his bitter pen against the defilers of our countryside, on the behalf of those urban people who desire to live in it. The government road-builders are shown to be the desecrators they are, and shoddy commercialism in excoriated. One would advise Mr. Eaton to give...
Walter P. Chrysler, Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., Frank Couzens (son of the Senator) are three of the 13 directors of the new National Bank of Detroit which two weeks ago succeeded the closed Guardian and First National Banks. Others: Donaldson Brown, vice president of General Motors; Henry Edward Bodman, Detroit lawyer; John Battice Ford Jr. (no kin of Henry), vice president of Michigan Alkali Co.; James Inglis, chairman of American Blower Corp.; Tracy W. McGregor, Detroit philanthropist; James Thayer McMillan, president of Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co., vice president of the Detroit Free Press; Peter J. Monaghan, Detroit lawyer; James Stansbury...