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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kewanee (Ill.) Star-Courier, Davenport (Iowa) Democrat and Times, Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gazette, Muscatine (Iowa) Journal, Ottumwa (Iowa) Courier, Hannibal (Mo.) Courier-Post, Lincoln (Neb.) Star, LaCrosse (Wis.) Tribune, Madison (Wis.) State Journal...
Some 2,000 of the nation's top businessmen who gathered in Manhattan last week at the meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board took their annual look at the state of the U.S. economy. Their report was still another confirmation that the U.S. is in the early stages of a new boom. The businessmen thought that a steel strike might slow the economy's pace somewhat in 1959's second half, but not enough to take the zip out of industry-or prevent it from hitting new peaks in many important sectors...
...deposits grew, Lewis helped his bank find better ways to put the money to use. Bankers give him much of the credit for a new New York State banking law passed in 1950 that enabled savings banks to invest part of their assets in stocks. He was the first president of New York's Institutional Investors Mutual Fund, an open-end stock fund for mutual savings banks that now has assets of $46 million. With it all, he was an easy man to work for: friendly, outgoing, a delegator of responsibility who enjoyed calling his staff "my family." Says...
Born. To Mary Churchill Soames, 36, youngest daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, and Christopher Soames, 38, British Secretary of State for War: their fifth child, third son (Sir Winston's tenth grandchild); in Eridge Green, England...
Died. Oswald D. Heck, 57, popular, powerful, longtime (23 years) Republican speaker of the New York state assembly, who ruled the often unruly legislators with fair play and wit, pushed through controversial measures (State Commission Against Discrimination, compulsory auto insurance, Governor Nelson Rockefeller's tough tax program); of a heart attack; in Schenectady...