Word: talcott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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REPORT OF THE COMPANY-Dudley Vaill Talcott-Random House ($3.75). A U.S. sculptor tells, in an easy conversational manner, how he bought a Norwegian sealing vessel, married the captain's daughter, conducted wealthy U. S. sportsmen on hunting and fishing expeditions in the Arctic...
...newspapermen are notoriously an improvident breed, one shining exception is 35-year-old Talcott Williams Powell, son of an Episcopal rector, godson and namesake of the first director of the Pulitzer (Columbia) School of Journalism. Talcott Powell, anxious to make his mark in the world, has kept a performance chart on himself ever since he was a cub reporter on the New York Sun. Graphing his status from year to year, he projected his curve upward to assistant on the city desk of the New York Herald Tribune, upward to the general managership of the Middletown (N. Y.) Times Herald...
Leaves of absence for the first half of 1935-36 were granted, for purposes of research to Bartholomeus J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy; Talcott Parsons, instructor in Sociology; and Hassler Whitney, instructor in Mathematics...
...Steel Corp. last week had reason to wish that a minister's son named Talcott Williams Powell had never become editor of the Scripps-Howard Indianapolis Times and gone prowling out of his sanctum in search of news stories. Fortnight ago when a general steel strike threatened, 34-year-old Editor Powell led four of his newshawks to Gary, Ind., U. S. Steel's private stronghold in the Midwest. He wanted to observe the exact layout of the steel mills and to chart lines of communication for covering what looked like a major industrial...
...When Talcott Powell's boss. Scripps-Howard Editor-in-Chief George B. ("Deak") Parker, read his story it fired him with red-hot indignation at U. S. Steel's "corporate gangsterism." He ordered the story sent to all 24 Scripps-Howard papers throughout the land. Last week they spread it across their pages like an indictment...