Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tennessee's Governor, an ex-livestock auctioneer named Jim McCord, is a Crumpet; so is U.S. Senator Tom Stewart. Sick old spoilsman Senator Kenneth McKellar is beholden to Mister Crump. West Tennessee's Congressmen are his to command. He sways the state legislature. And in Memphis and Shelby County, politicians move like automatons at his bidding-running daily to his office for instructions...
Sometimes he prods Memphis businessmen and advertisers into protesting on his behalf. Sometimes public officials leap up to defend him. When Mrs. Agnes Meyer, wife of the publisher of the Washington Post, compared him to Hitler last week, Senator Tom Stewart hurriedly took the floor of the Senate to cry: "Mrs. Meyer seeks to slander the South and its greatest leader...
...Columbia University Joseph Peter Grace and David Stewart Iglehart were inseparable friends. When they graduated in 1894, both went to work for Grace's father, William R. Grace, founder of W. R. Grace & Co. They climbed to the top of the company together. Last week, after 51 years, both retired-Joseph Grace, 73, as board chairman, Stewart Iglehart, 72, from the presidency...
...Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart, Thomas Mitchell...
...Panhandle Producing & Refining Co., Midway-Victory Oil Corp., Warren Bros. Co., James Stewart & Co., Inc., Jackson Heights Properties Inc., to mention some...