Word: rand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much more newspaper noise was made two days later by the decision in the case of Remington Rand Inc., makers of office equipment. Remington Rand asked regional boards in Buffalo and Detroit for an election among 10,000 of its employees in six plants, to find out whether they still wanted the C.I.O.'s United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers to bargain for them...
Smokers in general are hectic. At the last one before the war Sally Rand created a near-riot with her lecture entitled, "What the Typical Stage-Door Johnny is Looking for when he Stage-Door-Johnnies a Burlesque Stage Door...
With the stimulating announcement that the talent for the forthcoming Smoker may run from Mayor Curley to Greta Garbo, the Freshman Affairs Committee is harking back to the whoop-de-do that marked the spirited festivals of the past. The razzle-dazzle that teased through the years with Sally Rand, Beatrice Kay and Jinx Falkenberg, was conceived in an all-or-nothing spirit that merited E pennants for entertainment. Eagerly anticipating upperclass status with a yell and a holler, all Freshmen banded together to throw their shackles into the Charles and emerge with the Biggest Show Ever. They balked only...
Police had to be called at the last pre-war smoker to open a path for the eminent Sally Rand after her timely lecture entitled, "What the Typical Stage-Door Johnny is Looking for when he Stage-Door Johnnies a Burlesque Theatre Stage Door...
...undergraduate at Cambridge, Norbert Stephen Erleigh was in a hurry to make a million pounds, then quit. Said Norby Erleigh: "I think it could be done swiftest in South Africa." A wealthy Rand pioneer's son, Erleigh had the financial backing; he soon picked up the mining experience. In 1933, he helped Abraham Sundel Hersov form the Anglo-Transvaal Investment Co., Ltd., and together they made a killing in Rand mines. But "Bob" Hersov was too cautious for bumptious, erratic Norby Erleigh. By 1935 Erleigh, then 32, had broken away from Anglovaal, and he had made his first million...