Word: r
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...R. VALLANCE...
Last week, in France-Soir's building on the Rue Réaumur, blond young (28) Publisher Aristide Blank made a hardheaded guess about the future of the French press; "An island of collectivism cannot exist in a sea of capitalism. The only possible press here is one based on solid commercial foundations. In a few months the entire face of the French press will change. Then there will be only very small papers of opinion, and very great papers of information. We are going in the direction of cartels of the press...
...fast-stepping retail world, few men had moved faster than handsome, Swedish-born Walter Hoving. At 30 he was vice president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co.. at 34 vice president and sales manager of Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc.. and at 38 chairman of Manhattan's Lord & Taylor department store...
...Suitor. Rail Juggler Robert R. Young was determined to get the girl, even if he had to take up with her prosperous friends too. The Interstate Commerce Commission had turned down the trial marriage of his Chesapeake & Ohio with the New York Central, partly because it would take business away from the Virginian Railway Co. (TIME, May 24). So Suitor Young made a new proposal: he would buy into or merge with the Virginian too, and merge it with the Central and C. & O. Said the thriving, coal-hauling Virginian: Not feasible. ICC said nothing...
...seat twice, to be Congressman from another district five times, and later to become New York City's mayor for a record-breaking twelve years. His posthumous autobiography, The Making of an Insurgent, plainly reflects the weariness he must have felt as he and Writer M. R. Werner knocked it together last year during the final months of La Guardia's fatal illness (cancer). It covers the first 37 years of his life (1882-1919), from the childhood on Army posts (his Italian immigrant father was a bandmaster) through his early congressional years...