Word: sherwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chiefly responsible for Glidden's expansion into non-paint fields is 50-year-old Dwight Joyce's father, Adrian D. Joyce, who at 78 is still active as chairman of the board. A successful businessman at 45, father Adrian quit his job as sales manager for the Sherwin-Williams [paint] Co. to form a syndicate to buy Cleveland's little Glidden Varnish Co. for $2,500,000. In three years, he picked up eleven more paint companies, strategically spotted through the nation...
SAMUEL S. SHERWIN...
...President of Wellesley; Ester Forbes, 1945 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History; Tilly Edinger, Research Paleontologist in the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology; Anne O'Hare McCormick, N.Y. Times Foreign Correspondent and 1938 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Journalism; Dorothy Fosdick, Member of the State Department's Policy Planning Committee; Belle Sherwin, a founder and first President of the League of Women Voters; Mabel Newcomer, Professor of Economics at Vassar and a former members of the UN Conference at Breton Woods; and Ruth Baker Pratt, first woman to represent New York State in Congress...