Word: stutz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Time was when short, swart, flamboyant Harry Stutz roared around the country in his racer, brought back cups to Indianapolis to show that the Stutz was the fastest U. S. car. In 1916 Manhattan financiers made him a good offer for his company, and he sold out. Stutz Motor Car Co. of America Inc. had 13 resounding deficits during the next 16 years...
...Harry Stutz died in 1934. That year Stutz Motor Car Co. made just six cars. It borrowed1 $266,000 from RFC., At last, as a final indignity, it started making door-to-door delivery wagons for butchers and bakers instead of low, fast, flashy cars for racing drivers, and "Bearcats" for college boys. Some of the new commercial models could be driven standing up; even that did not help. Last year the company subsided into 77B, trustees began casting about for reorganization plans acceptable to two-thirds of the creditors. Last week Federal Judge Robert Baltzell gave...
...refute this charge rose the State Committee's Executive Director John G. Stutz, a Democrat appointed by Governor Landon's Democratic predecessor, Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring. Last week the original subject of dispute was overshadowed when Director Stutz complained, in a statement released through Landon campaign headquarters in Topeka, that he had been refused information concerning WPA's administrative costs. His requests for access to the records, said he, had been denied by the State WPAdministrator, ignored by Federal WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins. Indignantly Director Stutz pointed to an order of last June in which Administrator...
...days later WTA headquarters in Washington furnished Director Stutz with a statement of total ($12,847,274) and administrative ($513,821) WPA expenditures in Kansas for the first six months of 1936. Director Stutz said it was inadequate...
...five fronts, became Chief of Staff of the A. E. F. air service, one of the youngest men in U. S. Army history to win a colonelcy. Awarded many a medal, he served at the Peace Conference, quit the Army in 1920 to work for Nordyke & Marmon Co. Joining Stutz Motor Car Co. in 1925, he became president in 1929, resigned last August...