Word: vice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also has the fabulous Candlers (Coca-Cola); the Grays, who last week sold the venerable Journal (see p. 35); James H. Nunnally (candy) and Steve Lynch, who took fortunes out of Florida's real-estate boom; John K. Ottley and Thomas K. Glenn (banking); Southern Railway's Vice President Robert Baker ("Bob") Pegram 3rd, who is the city's No. 1 railroader. These and their kind once would have lived on Peachtree Street (where dogwood blooms in the spring, but there are no peach trees). Now most of the rich live in lush Druid Hills...
...Garner wage war at rummy, sat the Vice President and the "company," well-groomed Roy Miller (well-to-do sulfur man), R. W. Norton, ranch owner and Texas oilman, and cigar-crunching Newshawk Bascom Timmons, Washington correspondent for ten Southern papers, longtime friend of Mr. Garner...
...days later, the Vice President decided he had been called. It was the coldest day of the year: South Texas hunters knew deer would be running by the next dawn. While Lucas Zamora, the Mexican yard man, hung precariously in the tops of the live oaks, hacking out deadwood, and "Bertie," the cook, bustled about the kitchen "fixin' company dinner"; while Mrs. Ettie Garner tended her correspondence in the little office-house in the back yard; in the Garner garage Uvalde's garageman, Ross Brumfield, for 20 years the "Boss's" hunting companion, stowed away hunting gear...
...lunches at the Brevoort Hotel on Tuesdays, listen to speeches on "How I Came to Jesus," enjoy a half-hour of "Christian fellowship." Most of the Fellows are white-collar workers, with a scattering of executives like Board Chairman James Lewis Kraft of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., Vice President Frank Flagg Taylor of Continental Illinois Bank. Still spark plug of the club is Cartoonist Shoemaker, who contributes drawings to the club paper, lately packed a Tuesday meeting by demonstrating the "Shoescope," a $1,500 contraption which projects his cartoons, as he draws them, upon a screen. The Shoescope...
...appointed successor: tall, careful Clarence Griffith Stoll, who at 56 has been vice president in charge of Western Electric's operations for eleven years...