Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General Motors' Board Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. has long been convinced of a couple of facts of industrial life: too few engineers know much about business, and too few executives know enough about science. M.I.T. Alumnus Sloan (1895) has already given his alma mater $600,000 to finance courses that would train students in both. Last week he went a huge step further. The step: a gift of $5,250,000 for a School of Industrial Management...
F.D.R.: HIS PERSONAL LETTERS, VOLS. III & IV (1,615 pp.)-Edited by Elliott Roosevelt-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
When American Airlines Flight 157 wheeled up to the customs shed at Mexico City's airport one day last week, a mariachi band struck up Guadalajara. After a suitably dramatic pause, smiling Sloan Simpson O'Dwyer, wife of the 41st U.S. envoy to Mexico, appeared in the plane's doorway, slim in a dark suit and rust-colored hat. Ambassador William O'Dwyer followed her into the morning sunshine...
...Sloan was swept into a series of abrazos from the women in the unofficial welcoming party, emerging with two bouquets and smeared lipstick. Somewhat eclipsed, the new ambassador listened to a brief welcome from Alfonso Castro Valle, sub-chief of protocol. Then from his light grey suit he fished a diplomatic little speech of his own. Said O'Dwyer, in Spanish that had gone a bit rusty since his student days in Salamanca: "I feel deeply honored that I have been chosen to succeed the distinguished and able former ambassador, Mr. Walter Thurston, and I am gratified that...
...gringos sent an Irishman, And a girl to idolize. We will sign any treaty now, For Sloan has beautiful eyes...