Word: stoddard
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Divorced. Marriner Stoddard Eccles, 58, onetime Utah banker and industrialist, veteran New Dealer, since 1934 member of the Federal Reserve Board (and chairman from 1936 until President Truman demoted him last February); by May Campbell Eccles, 56, whom he met in Scotland during his Mormon missionary days; after 36 years of marriage, three children; in Ogden, Utah...
Into the presidency of the rich Union Pacific, third largest U.S. railroad, stepped a railroader's railroader. At 53, tall, taciturn Arthur E. Stoddard had reached the top, after a typical railroader's climb from the very bottom...
...eleven, Nebraska-born Art Stoddard went to Texas with his father, a grading contractor who was helping to build the Rock Island Line. Art got a job as water boy at 25? a day. He worked on railroads on & off while finishing school, joined the U.P. as a shop helper. After a World War I stint as a Navy radio operator, he worked up through U.P.'s ranks as a telegrapher, train dispatcher, trainmaster, assistant superintendent...
...unsnarl the rail shipments of U.S. material to the Soviet Union. He did so well that General Eisenhower brought him to England as assistant supply boss for the Normandy invasion, later put him in charge of the First Military Railway Service in France. At war's end, Stoddard quickly moved up to U.P.'s general manager. Last week, when President George F. Ashby retired at 63, U.P.'s Chairman E. Roland Harriman and his fellow directors named Stoddard president...
...subject ranging from "General Semantics and Dentistry" to "General Semantics and the Teaching of Physics." Doctors, using general semantics, have claimed it helped cure everything from alcoholism to frigidity. There are General Semantics Societies in twelve cities from Winnipeg to Sydney. Sample members: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, President George Stoddard of the University of Illinois, Actor Fredric March...