Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gruen, noted for its slender, popular-priced watches, had done little business during Depression. It was run by two quiet, conservative brothers, Fred and George Gruen, sons of Founder Dietrich Gruen, who died in 1911 after making the first thin pocket watch by flattening out the movement. With a Swiss chalet-style factory called Time Hill in Cincinnati, and another in Biel, Switzerland, the Gruens operated along conservative lines, licensed one or two dealers to a city, clung to the prestige of their name regardless of profits...
...Orchestra concerts this afternoon and tomorrow night will be conducted by the Anglo-Belgian director, Mr. Eugene Goosens, known in this country for his work in Rochester and Cincinnati. Despite the obvious fact that Mr. Goosens waves the longest stick seen here in recent years, he is essentially a quiet conductor, in marked contrast to the Orchestra's other guests of late. And as leader of the Orchestra, he is firm and competent in securing what he wants...
...privileged to live in this cruel, fascinating age. There was work to be done. The land had been cleared, tilled, peopled; it had been mechanized and industrialized. Silent, sullen breadlines had replaced the noise of stage-coaches and saloons; the shouts of congressional orators had given way to the quiet buzz of committee rooms. The pioneers and their heroics were laid to nest.: America had been made and it was being remade...
...quotable fellow," he tells interviewers, "just a quiet guy." The quiet guy's big job is to get Fair Standards safely started through the courts by selecting a series of sound, definitive cases for immediate test. His chief source of worry on this score is the possibility of ill-chosen cases filed by employes...
...Quiet and aloof, Harry Wolfe is the opposite of Bob. Other present-day Wolfes are Old Bob's son, Edgar, and Harry's three sons, Robert, H. Preston and Richard. Each has an equal voice in running the family shoe business, banks (BancOhio Corporation) newspapers and radio station (WBNS). Only unanimous decisions are acted upon. The Wolfes also own Ohio Agricultural Lands, Inc.-5,536 acres of choicest farmland in nearby counties, where they raise 12,000 hogs, 2,000 cattle, feed 10,000 sheep a year...