Word: taciturn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upstairs, where Charles higher-ups work in offices as cluttered as the back rooms of country stores, President George Ruckdeschel said he was "too low" to discuss the reasons why the store was closing. Low in spirit but not so taciturn was Chairman William A. Charles. Behind his roller-top desk, looking like a baffled and unhappy small-town grocer, this tall, grey-haired, 70-year-old son of the store's founder talked of Charles & Co.'s rise & fall...
...hunt they found Ellsworth Schindler, who had meantime become a power on the reservation, one of eight governing councilors of the Seneca Nation. Haled to court because he refused to tell where his car was, Ellsworth Schindler last week still refused to tell. Jailed for contempt of court, the taciturn red man was unperturbed...
...opposition grew in the ranks of stockholders and Allied gave in after two years. At the same directors' meeting where the $400,000,000 company gave in completely by agreeing to register on the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman Weber turned over his office to almost equally taciturn Henry Atherton. Since then Allied has revealed what proportion of its income comes from the chemicals it makes, what from investments, has gradually expanded its annual statements. Last week it finally revealed most of the miscellaneous securities the great chemical firm has in the mysterious investment portfolio, which in the happy...
Salesman Lyon is Philip Morris' field commander. Its generalissimo is a man as different from him as Turkish tobacco from burley-a lanky, shy Virginian, Otway Hebron Chalkley. Vice President Lyon is breezy and backslapping, President Chalkley taciturn, reserved, at ease with finance and factory but not with strangers...
...course, James J. Hines, a bulky, taciturn man of 61 who started life as a blacksmith and now lives in quiet, sporting affluence, with a country cottage at Long Beach and a town apartment near the northwest corner of Central Park, appeared with his lawyer at the D. A.'s office to submit to arrest. It was the crowning sensation of a three-year campaign to roust racketeers out of Manhattan. It was also the biggest act yet in the career of Thomas Edmund Dewey, now 36, who three years ago, when Governor Lehman appointed him special rackets prosecutor...