Word: studiousness
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...stepped Raymond Henry Fogler, 46, quiet, serious, hard-working vice president in charge of operations, whom Mr. Avery hired away from W. T. Grant Co. in 1932. Born on a Maine farm and educated in a one-room schoolhouse before he went to the University of Maine and Princeton, studious Merchant Fogler has been at Sewell Avery's right hand throughout the Ward renascence. Although Mr. Avery, who has the step and manner of a man of 50, will presumably continue dictating Montgomery Ward's policies, he last year began retiring from active business life when he quit...
Another National Laborite, Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late great Ramsay, has been called Neville Chamberlain's "favorite"' among the younger Cabinet Ministers. This week the Dominions Secretaryship was added to studious Son MacDonald's portfolio, thus uniting it again with the Colonial Secretaryship from which it was divorced by Ramsay MacDonald (TIME...
...pink-faced, tall youngster with a copper-colored moustache, wavy pompadour, studious spectacles and knowing eyes, Clemens got his B.A. at Madison in 1932, studied at Chicago's Art Institute, married a pretty girl and returned to Milwaukee to work on the Federal Art Project. To Manhattan, along with his paintings, he sent a written declaration of his love for the great painters, for oil painting and for the female body. More noteworthy than this credo was his challenge to the school in which Discoverer Curry was discovered eight years ago: "I am glad to see that . . . the emphasis...
...finding "more pleasure in disagreeing with other Lutherans than in agreeing with them." He urged them to "discern our three-fold responsibility today, for our inner unity, for unity with all Lutherans and for unity with all Christians." But unity, he declared, should be on a basis of "extremely studious discrimination." In the Lutheran basket, the chief egg upon which the United Lutheran Church looks with favor is the American Lutheran Church (some 500,000 members...
...Central Pacific over the Sierra Nevadas, persuaded Crocker, Stanford, Hopkins and Huntington (then Sacramento merchants) to back him, battled for Federal support, broke with his partners, and died in 1863, at 37, as the road he had dreamed about for years was at last being built. For Crazy Judah-"studious, industrious, resourceful, opinionated, humorless, and extraordinarily competent"-Author Lewis has great respect. The line he surveyed across the mountains, rising 7,000 feet in less than 20 miles, was the boldest feat of railroad engineering undertaken up to that time...