Word: sibley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even Chamber President Harper Sibley, re-elected last week for another one-year term, thought that U. S. thinking has been "tainted with sophistries of foreign ori-gin." But the long-nosed, amiable Rochester, N. Y. capitalist, taking a little longer view than his fellows, continued: "If the American people have given ear to false prophecies, they are not to be herded back to the right path by denunciation and abuse. ... It is a task for both business management and political management...
Nevertheless, moderate Mr. Sibley could not prevent the convention from turning into a rousing Republican rally. The one successful effort on the part of the "constructive" minority to give the meeting a semblance of significance was a strategem concocted by Chicago's John William O'Leary, head of the Machinery & Allied Products Institute. He hastily released the Chamber's plan for a national survey to determine "our re-employment possibilities with a degree of accuracy which cannot be equaled in any other way." This was the first official reply of organized business to President Roosevelt...
...Harper Sibley, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce, for the "Government and Industry" table; Joseph B. Eastman, Federal Coordinator of Railroads, also for the "Government and Industry" table; and Thomas C. Woodard, Peoples Council for the Guffey Coal Administration, for the same table...
There is a story that the day before the inspection of the library in 1823, the librarian was seen flying across the yard in the direction of one of the dormitories. An undergraduate stopped him with. "I suppose you're all ready for the inspection tomorrow, Mr. Sibley...
Said the show manager: "She is just the type I need-tall, blonde and stately, with an air about her." Heroine Sibley: "This has been worth a year at college. I'm never going back...