Word: sethe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boss of NBC-TV's Wagon Train, Major Seth Adams (Ward Bond), sometime Union cavalry officer, can be forgiven his aplomb. He has been tangling with oddballs ever since he started his first trek out of St. Joseph, Mo. a year ago last September, headed for Sacramento, Calif. Every week, while the train fights thirst, Indians and renegade whites, Bond has had to take time out to handle the wild and woolly characters with which his scriptwriters people the West. In A Man Called Horse, beefy Ralph ("Picnic") Meeker turned up as an ignorant settler who had been handed...
...others: Seth Gordon Persons, 56, Governor of Alabama (1951-54); Major General John Williams ("Willie") Persons, 59, commanding officer at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia; Jo Robert Persons, one of the nation's leading life-insurance salesmen until his death in 1946, and the Rev. Frank Stanford Persons II, 71, an Episcopalian who carried the Gospel to moonshiners in Virginia, coal miners in Pennsylvania, orange pickers in Cuba, is now back in Alabama...
Bank of America President S. (for Seth) CLARK BEISE...
...other hand, S. (for Seth) Clark Beise (rhymes with high C), president of the Bank of America, biggest U.S. bank (1955 installment loans: more than $1 billion), feels that there is "insufficient evidence that there are not enough funds to finance necessary capital outlay. There are enough long-term loans available and enough equity loans." Bill Martin himself summed up the controversy last week: "Thoughtful people, who take the long view, approve. People who are pinched naturally say it will only bring on a depression...
After the war, a change came over Seth Dalmia. He devoted more and more time to public confession and philanthropic works. Most notable gift was to the Gandhi Memorial Fund, a gesture, he admitted publicly, that was made not from philanthropic impulse but because he expected it to help him with the government; he was being investigated at the moment for wartime tax evasion...