Word: sloan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Americans who remember the Prohibition Era would rather not. But to Norman Hume Anthony, onetime editor of Judge, Life and Ballyhoo, ft is the time when Americans were happiest. His autobiography, just published, How to Grow Old Disgracefully (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3) is a flippant, bawdy, superficial account of phenomenal success and complete comedown in the tricky business of trying to make magazine readers laugh. It is also the most unashamed backward look at the National Bender in a long time...
...another Napoleonic railroad plan. Claughton, holder of one of the largest single blocks of stock in the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. ("Katy"), came a cropper with his first plan to control Katy's board of directors (TIME, April 23). He lost out to Katy President Matthew Scott Sloan,* who died a month later. Into his job went a friend of Claughton's, softspoken, malleable Raymond John ("Mike") Morfa, onetime assistant to Allegheny Corp.'s Robert Ralph Young...
...Alfred P. Sloan...
Publisher George A. Sloan of the Southern Agriculturalist chimed in with "We have depended too much on outside help and not enough on our own resources. . . . Politics in a free domestic economy is a poor substitute for scientific research and sound merchandising...
...BLAZING LIGHT-Max White-Dae//, Sloan & Pearce...