Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oscar Ulysses Zerk, inventor of the Zerk automobile lubricating system, launched a proxy campaign to oust the management of Stewart-Warner Corp, (auto accessories) of which he claims he is one of the largest stockholders. His first publicity: the management lately issued an unqualified statement that employment ''had increased 70% in 30 days." This they did by using for comparison employment figures during the depths of the banking moratorium week. Audited figures showed an 8.7% gain in the last 30 days, a 9% gain from the week preceding the moratorium. To allow Mr. Zerk to flush more proxies...
...test of a nation's sense of stability is the manner in which it treats crimes against the state. In Britain month ago a young Highland officer, Lieut. Norman Baillie-Stewart, was tried for espionage and high treason in the full glare of publicity. In Italy last week a secret military tribunal met behind locked doors to try the case of 25-year-old half-French, half-Italian Camilla Agliardi of Brescia and her lover, Warrant Officer Ugo Traviglia. They had been in jail for months, but only a handful of people in all Italy knew they had been...
...Singles--Stewart (Y) defeated A. C. Helmhois, 2nd, 5-7, 10-7, 6-1; Mansfield (Y) defeated G. G. Glidden, 6-8, 6-2, 6-3; Stevens (Y) defeated G. S. Franklin, 6-1, 6-1; McMurtry (Y) defeated J. A. Roberts, 6-2, 6-4; G. F. Robertson defeated Ellis (Y), 6-4, 5-7, 6-3; R. W. Glider defeated Greene...
...Doubles Stewart and Stevens (Y) defeated Mansfield and McMurtry (Y), 6-4, 6-3; Barr and T. A. D. Jones (Y) defeated Robertson and L. S. Shaw...
...Franklin Roosevelt flew to Chicago to accept the Presidential nomination he promised Mayor Cermak, since murdered, to be on hand for the opening of Chicago's Century of Progress. Last week Rufus Cutler Dawes, Fair president, accompanied by Col. Albert Arnold Sprague and onetime Postmaster General Harry Stewart New, marched into the White House, asked the President if he could officiate June 1. The President was sorry but that day he would be handing out diplomas at Annapolis. How about May 27? "That's bully!" declared President Roosevelt. For the opening the President will push a button connected...