Word: rotaryism
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Largely the creation of Interlocutor Johnson, a onetime adman, Vox Pop got under way over station KTRH in Houston, Tex. during Franklin Roosevelt's first Presidential campaign. In its early career, Vox Pop was beset by drunks and loquacious looneys. Nowadays the show is conducted with propriety in Rotary...
It was Roscoe Crafton's idea. Set a-thinkin' by the national publicity given the Corn Belt's annual corn-husking championship, he got some fellow cotton merchants to form an association last winter, sow the seeds of a national cotton-picking contest. "Wide open to the...
As an increasingly prominent citizen, quiet George Stevens joined the Rotary Club, the Elks Lodge, the Masonic Blue Lodge in Hartford City, and the Scottish Rite at Fort Wayne. He became well known in Indiana industrial circles, active in philanthropies. In 1925 he established the Akron Foundation "to minister to...
Three years in father's basement did the job that Mr. Scherer looked back on last week. For when he came up he had a patented process for high-speed manufacture of capsules, made by running strips of gelatin through rotary dies. For filling his capsules, Bob Scherer worked...
Year and a half ago two veteran Oklahoma oil men put a fancy new, aluminum-colored portable rotary drilling rig on display at the International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa, Okla. It attracted little attention. Then the rig's attendants began to drill. At 540 feet they struck oil. Surprised...