Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Philadelphia Revelry had its first night. Dramatized by Maurine Watkins (author of the play Chicago) from a novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, it purported to reveal the degeneracies and deceptions to which the U. S. Government descended during the Harding administration. Said a critic: "It tells a sordid story of misplaced trust and unseemly gorging at the public treasury...
...Weakest Link." Ill in Yonkers, N. Y., unable to attend, Samuel Untermyer, fiery Manhattan counselor, wrote a letter for President Whitman to read aloud. ". . . The administration of justice, which...
...Detroit, in Manhattan last week, were the victims of a Philadelphia mis- understanding. They, C. R. Bitting and R. F. Shields, had gone to Phil- adelphia early in the week expecting to be made directors of Baldwin Locomotive Works. They conferred with Chairman Thomas S. Gates and President Samuel M. Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive and presented their credentials, voting stock proxies of the six Fisher Body brothers of Detroit.* They were told that not enough Baldwin Directors were in Philadelphia to make up a quorum. Mr. Bitting and Mr. Shields went to Manhattan to "enjoy the sights." Next...
...continent to Los Angeles. This train constituted only a part of one order filled that year by the Baldwin works, a new herd of 50 freight movers for the Southern Pacific R.R. Hitching the monsters together and delivering them all in large groups was a publicity stroke conceived by Samuel M. Vauclain who has put on the selling end of his business a head of steam proportionate to the pressures carried by his latest products...
...Samuel Vauclain learned to love locomotives, the way other men love horses, as an apprentice in an Altoona (Pa.) roundhouse which his father superintended. He learned to build them at the Baldwin works in Philadelphia, rising in 36 years from foreman to president. He has never given up his workingman's habit of reporting for work at 7 a. m. But it is as a salesman that he has chiefly succeeded. He sold locomotives in Europe when people thought Europe was too War-poor to pay for anything. He took his pay in oil, bonds. Once he sold...