Word: stet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stettinius has just turned 37, has a big backlog of executive training. Son and namesake of the original Edward Reilly Stettinius, Morgan partner and U. S. director of Allied Munitions' purchases during the War, "Little Stet" craved a career of his own. Already grey-haired and sober as an undergraduate, he was well liked at the University of Virginia. Starting out at the bottom in Hyatt Bearings Division of General Motors, he rose with meteoric rapidity through industrial and public relations to a vice-presidency. During the heyday of NRA he was one of Hugh Johnson's aides...
...rays, gamma rays from radium. Hence under ideal conditions radio waves travel at the velocity of light - about 186,270 mi. per sec. - and for many a year radiomen assumed that wireless signals always traveled at that pace in their journeys around Earth. Last week Dr. Harlan True Stet son of Harvard informed the Institute of Radio Engineers that some waves had been detected jogging along with less than half their theoretical velocity, at speeds...
...Airways), and two sons, William and Ed- ward Jr. At the time that his father became a Morgan partner young Ed was in Pomfret School. From there he went to the University of Virginia whither his brother William had preceded him. To distinguish them Bill was known as "Big Stet," Ed as "Little Stet." The janitor of his house called Ed "Mr. Statistics...
...those days the heavy head of hair over Little Stet's square, good-looking face was already turning grey. At college he never touched a drop to drink, never smoked, never used bad language. He became head of the college Y.M.C.A.. and also King of the Imps (noted for their heavy drinking), was rated a "swell guy" and finally was elected president of the Academic department. His inherited drive was already in full swing...
...short time become in fact Steel's "Mr. Statistics." Even before then he will probably become one of Steel's 15 directors along with J. P. Morgan, Thomas W. Lamont, Myron C. Taylor, James A. Farrell, George F. Baker, Walter S. Gifford and Sewell Avery. Today Little Stet is only 33. but as be fits a man who has already had a full career, he is practically white-haired. In 1926 he married Virginia Wallace, a Vir ginia girl. They have three children: Edward Jr., aged 3, and twin sons born last March during the banking holiday. From...