Word: shedd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JEFFREY SHEDD...
Harrison P. Shedd (nephew of John Graves Shedd who in 1906 succeeded Marshall Field as president of Chicago's great Marshall Field & Co. store) last week after 37 years with Field's, became general manager of its wholesale department. At the same time Marshall Field issued its first quarterly report in history, showing a quarterly loss of $2,000,000, a smaller loss than in the same quarter last year when sales were 20% bigger...
...floor of the Ayer building, the 1,386 sheets were spread over 5,000 square feet of space. Three judges-Editor Fred Fuller Shedd of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Editor Marlen Pew of Editor & Publisher tradepaper, Fred W. Kennedy, journalism director at University of Washington-walked gravely up & down the rows, dropping ballots upon sheets which caught their favor for excellence of typography, make-up and presswork. Last week the "sweepstakes" winner was announced: the New York Times. Prize: a silver cup bearing the name of Francis Wayland Ayer, late founder of the agency. Honors also were awarded...
...JEFFREY SHEDD Evanston...
...architecture. Architects in many lands have read his paper on getting the maxi mum amount of sunlight into a house. He is considered an expert on designing squash courts. One day he noticed his brother's walls were leaking. When he found out that Chicago's Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium, both masonry structures, also had leak troubles, he decided steel would be a better building material than brick. He first took his idea of a General Motors in the housing field to steel-conscious Charles Allen Liddle, president of Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp...